148 THE BERMUDA ISLANDS. 



Numerous large specimens, from the banks and fields near 

 the south shore. We found them specially abundant near the 

 locality known as Spanish Mark or the Chequer Board, and 

 again not far from Peniston Pond. The burrows in places ex- 

 tend diagonally three or four feet, or even more, beneath the 

 surface, and the animals, rapidly retreating into these, are fre- 

 quently difficult to capture. 



This is, doubtless, the species that is referred to by Willemoes- 

 Suhin in the Challenger narrative as Gecarcinus latcralis, and 

 is apparently the G. lagostoma (?) described by Miers in the 

 systematic portion of the Challenger Reports (Zoology, XVII ? 

 p. 218), in so far as this description applies to the single Ber- 

 muda specimen. 



Nautilograpsus minutus, L. 



One small specimen dredged off Shelly Bay. 



Grapsus maculatus, Catesby. 



One large female, and numerous empty shells from Harris's 

 Bay, south shore. 



Pachygrapsus transversus, Gibbcs. 



Numerous specimens, including ovigerous females; very 

 abundant on the rocks about the mouth of Harrington Sound, 

 and also on the Pigeon Rocks, Bailey's Bay. 



Recorded from Florida, West Indies, Australia. 



Cyclograpsus integer, Milne-Edwards. 



One small female. Species recorded from Brazil and Florida. 



Goniopsis cruentatus, Latr. 



One female, from the mangrove swamp of Hungary Bay, 

 south shore. Although the species was very abundant at this 

 locality we only succeeded in catching a single individual. 

 The mangrove crab, or " mangrove climber," as the animal is 

 sometimes called, burrows among the thickets of mangrove 

 stems and roots, up which it not infrequently climbs to a height 

 of several feet. The great similarity existing between its color- 

 ing and that of the bright and partially withered leaves of the 



