540 



.4. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



Cruz (Edwards). According to Stimpson it makes a nest of mud 

 among tlie roots of mangroves. 



Xanthodius parvulus (Fahr.) M. J. Eathbun. 



Cancer parvulus Fabr., Entomol. Syst., ii, p. 451, 1793 {t. Eathbun). (Not 



Xantho parvulus M.-Edw., nor Panopeus parvxdus Ben. and Eath.) 

 Chlorodius americanus Saussure, Mem. de la Soc. Phys. et d'Hist. Nat. 



Geneve, vol. xlv, p. 430, pi. i, fig. 5, 1857. 

 Xanthodius americanus Stimp., Notes on N. Amer. Crnst., Ann. Lye. Nat. 



Hist., N. York, vii, p. 209 [81], 1860. 

 Leptodius americanus A. Milne- Edw., Miss. Sci. Mex., v, i, p. 269, 1880. M- 



J. Eathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, p. 536, 1893. 

 Xanthodius pai'vulus M. J. Eathbun, Brach. and Maer. of Porto Eico, p, 27, 



1901. Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., xi, p. 576, 1901. 



Figure 12. Plate XIV, Figure 4. 



Average size of adults: carapace abouc 15'°™ ]ong ; 24.5'""' wide ; 

 front 6'^''" wide. 



The single adult specimen in the Museum of Yale Universit}', from 

 the collection of Dr. F. V. Hamlin, 1877, has been determined by- 

 Miss Rathbun by direct comparison with a photograph of the orig- 

 inal type of Fabricius. It is evidently a rai'e species at the Bermu- 

 das, for it Avas not found in any of the later collections. Probably 

 it lives under stones or in burrows. 



Figure 12. — Xanthodius parvulus from Bermuda. x about 2. Phot. A. H. V. 



It ranges from the Florida Keys and West Indies to Brazil. Florida 

 and Barbados (Stimpson) ; Hayti (Saussure) ; Bahamas, Porto Rico, 

 Curacao, etc. (Rathbun) ; Fernando Noronha (Pocock). 



