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verse line of about four very obtuse tubercles; clypeus 

 with an impressed line, edge three-toothed, of which the 

 anterior one is more acute, the lateral ones forming the 

 inner supercanthus of the eyes; feet hzxry, third joint 

 unarmed, first joint of the tibia grooved above and with 

 the second granulated; anterior, feet ^ third joint slightly 

 granulate at tip and on the anterior edge, the anterior con- 

 dyle rather prominent; carpus destitute of hau', nearly as 

 large as the hand, with numerous granular tubercles on 

 the upper side, anterior edge with a prominent tooth sub- 

 equal to the condyle of the preceding joint and granulat- 

 ed; hands hirsute on the inferior edge, elevated into an 

 emarginate and granulated angle above, anterior side com- 

 pressed and with granulated tubercles, which are some- 

 what arranged in lines longitudinally, and with the car- 

 pus beneath convex, smooth, and. white; fingers granu- 

 lated before, granules of the thumb arranged in about 

 three lines, teeth small, regular, resembling the gi'anules, 

 and like them diminishing in size to the tip. 



Length of the thorax one-fifth of an inch. 



A number of specimens occurred, cast ashore on the 

 beach of St. Catharine's island, Georgia, in an alcyonium. 



NOTES. 



Hepatus fasciatus^ Latr., is not uncommon on the 

 coasts of Georgia and Florida. It varies considerably 

 in the arrangement and configuration of its spots. When 

 young it is generally more or less fasciate with reddish, 

 but in the adult specimen, these bands are interrupted into 

 large spots, which are each diluted on the disk, and are 



