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A. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



Doxaecia hispida Eyd. and Soul. 

 Domecia hispida Eydonx and Sonleyet, Voy. Bonite, i, Crust., p. 325, 1842, 



Atlas, pi. ii, figs. 5-10. Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Crust., p. 251, 1852. 



Stimpson, Annals Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, vii, p. 218 [90], 1860; Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., ii, p. 145. A. M.-Edw., Miss. Sci. Mexico, Crust., p. 345, pi. 



Iviii, figs. 2-M, 1880. M. J. Rathbun, Bull. Labr. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa, 



iv, p. 276, 1898; Brauner-Agassiz Exped. Brazil, p. 141, 1900; Bracli. and 



Anomura, Porto Eico, p. 43, 1901. 

 Eupihimnus Wcbsteri Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad., for 1879, p. 383 



(descr. of young, Florida, t. M. J. R.). Generic name was preoccupied. 



Figure 21. 



This is a very small species, covered above with pale hairs. 

 Length of carapace about 6.6™"" ; breadth, 9.50. The color in life 

 IS light yellowish red, with the spines blackish; front darker. 



It appears to be very rare in Bermuda. It lives between branches 

 of corals and in holes in dead corals and stones. One small speci- 

 men, taken at Bermuda, was identified by Miss Kathbun. 



Figure 21. — Domecia hiapida, male, enlarged; h, abdomen of male; c, front 

 and antennal area ; b' , outer maxilliped. After A. M. -Edwards. 



It is very wide!}' distributed in all tropical seas. Florida to Brazil; 

 Hawaiian Is.; East Indies; Indian Ocean; Senegal; Cape Verde Is.; 

 Maceio and Pernarabuco, Brazil (Rathbun) ; Florida and Cuba 

 (Stimpson). Gulf of California and Panama, between branches of 

 Pocillopora (Yale Mus.). 



Family, PORTXJNID^ Leach, 1819. Swimming Crabs. 



Of this extensive family, only twelve species have been collected 

 hitherto at the Bermudas, and of these four* have not been previ- 



* Namely: Callinectes marginatus, C. Dance, Acheloiis Smithii, and Charyhdella 

 tumidula. 



