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characters of importance. At the same time they claimed that 

 there are various intermediate forms between this and their var. 

 longicarpus. Coutiere stated that they had two or more species 

 confused under the latter name, as he proved by types. 



Their colored figures (pi. IV, figs. 1-3) of the male and female 

 brevicarpus from a "green sponge" were regarded as the typical 

 form. The female carried over 300 large eggs, and had a dis- 

 tended abdomen full of green eggs ; the young hatched in an 

 advanced larval stage (mysis-form). However, there is one 

 character in which these figures disagree with the brevicarpus as 

 restricted by Coutiere, viz. there is shown a small acute spine 

 above the base of the basicerite, where in the restricted species 

 there should be merely an angular lobe ; still this spinule is repre- 

 sented as much smaller than it is in 5". minus. However, in their 

 figures of the details (see their pi. 33, fig. 8, and our pi. 36, fig. 

 3b) no spinule is shown in this place, though these figures are also 

 based on specimens from the "green sponge" and are represented 

 as typical of the variety. These also agree well with Coutiere's 

 figures. 



Their specimen numbered 8, p. 386, pi. 23, figs. 5, Sc, 13 (our 

 pi. 34, fig. 4) seems to be a distinct species. They referred it to 

 var. brevicarpus, but as an intermediate form. It has a very 

 short stylocerite (their pi. 22, fig. 18) not so long as the first 

 article of the antennule. It is said in the table (p. 386) to have a 

 rudimentary antennal scale, as in their pi. 22, fig. 13; but some 

 of their figures show a wide scale. 



The antennular peduncle is represented as long, and the carpo- 

 cerite is four times as long as wide. The smaller chela is described 

 as cylindric, with simple pointed fingers and no tuft on the dactyl. 

 I have seen no specimens agreeing with this form, nor does it 

 agree with any described by Coutiere. 



This species is rare at Bermuda, perhaps not yet positively 

 identified as found there. Our specimens are from the West 

 Indies. 



Synalpheus longicarpus Coutiere. 



Alpheus saulcyi, var. longicarpus (pars) Herrick, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., 

 v, 383-389, plates xxi, figs, n, 13, 14, 17, 18; xxiv, figs. 2, 8, 1891. 



? Synalpheus lavimanus, var. longicarpus (pars) Coutiere, Bull. Soc. 

 Entom. France, 1898, No. 8, p. 189, fig. 20; op. cit., 1899, figs. 116, 123,. 

 153, 241, 360, 394. 



