Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda, Part II. 115 



merus is three and one-half times longer than wide ; the propodus 

 has a row of eight spines ; the dactyl is short and stout, curved 

 distally, with the two hooks divergent and about equal, the inner 

 a little wider and more incurved. 



Sixth abdominal segment has a strong triangular lateral tooth 

 on each posterior angle. The uropods are wide, well rounded, 

 little longer than the telson. The outer one has about seven or 

 eight denticles, with a movable spine between the first two. The 

 uropods are smaller in the female. 



The telson is shaped much as in S. goodei, but is relatively 

 narrower and longer, greatest width to length about as I : 1.33; 

 distal third narrow, tip very narrow, space between apical spines 

 small, bearing four plumose hairs and some simple ones. The 

 eggs are small and produce zoeas. Color translucent-whitish ; 

 fingers brown. 



It usually inhabits cavernous sponges, especially the logger-head 

 sponge, often in large colonies. Not obtained at Bermuda so far 

 as positively known to me. The Bermuda specimens referred to 

 it by Miss Rathbun are apparently different. It is likely to be 

 found hereafter, for the same sponge occurs there. It may have 

 been confused with S. goodei formerly. 



Coutiere records it from off Cape Fear, N. C., 15 fathoms; 

 Gulf of Mexico, 24 to 26 fathoms (4000 to 5000, in one haul) ; 

 Yucatan; Jamaica, in black sponge; Curacao. Very abundant 

 at Beaufort, N. C., in large sponges cast upon the shore by the 

 waves, and dredged on the off shore fishing banks (Hay and 

 Shore). Our specimens are from the West Indies. 



Brooks and Herrick, in their large work, p. 387, in the table, 

 named especially as the type of their "var. longicarpus," No. 13 of 

 their list. It is described there as having no antennal scale; the 

 smaller chela is said to have "prongs and a tuft," i.e., the fingers 

 have teeth at the tips and a large crest of hairs on the dactyl; 

 length of male 9.5mm; stylocerite or "aural spine" one half as 

 long as first antennular segment; scaphocerite spine more than 

 half as long as carpocerite. It was a male. 



Their No. 9, also referred to var. longicarpus (see their pi. 23, 

 fig. 14, antenna) shows a rudimentary antennal scale; its smaller 

 chela (their pi. 24, fig. 2), our plate XXXIV, figs. 5, 5a, has the 

 carpus long, a tuft on the dactyl, and three teeth at the tip. This 

 may be 5\ pectiniger of Coutiere. 



