422 



A. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



Calappa gallus (Herbst) Latr., var. galloides (Stimp.). Yelloiv Box Crab. 



Cancer yallus (par^s) Herbst, op. cit., iii, pt. 3, pp. 18, 46, pi. Iviii, iig. 1, 1803. 



Cancer (Calappa) gallus (pars) Latr., Eeg. Anim., iii, p. 24, 1817. 



Calappa gallus H. M.-Edw., Hist. nat. Crust., ii, p. 105, 1837. Dana, Crust. 



U. S. Expl. Exp., p. 393, 1852. Capello, Journ. Sci. Math., Phys. Nat. 



Lisbon, iii, p. 133, pi. ii, fig. 4, 1871 (W. Africa). 

 Miers, Voy. Challenger, xvii, p. 286, 1886 (Bermuda). Eankin, op. cit., p. 533. 



M. J. Eathbun, Decapod Crust. W. Africa, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxii, p. 



297, 1900 ; Brach. and Macr. Porto Rico, p. 85, 1901. 

 Cancer galloides Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, vii, p. 71, 1859. 



Figure 45. Plate XXVI, Figures 3. 



Color of upper parts generally orange to orange-brown, becoming 

 brighter on the front of the chel»; under parts dull yellow. Cara- 

 pace, above, and front of chelfe, covered with irregular sp(5ts of dark 

 red or reddish brown, variable in size and form; many of the larger 



Figure 45. — Calappa gallus, galloides, front view, about nat. size. 

 A. H. V. 



Phot. 



granules and tubercles of the carapace are white, especially those 

 that lie in rows on the posterior transverse ridges and those on the 

 scattered elevations. This causes the elevations to appear higher 

 than they really are. The digits of the chelje are smoky horn-color, 

 becoming blackish on the upper side of the dactjd. Ambulatory 

 legs yellow, finely reticulated with red lines. 



Measurements. 



No. 

 1903fc 



Sex 



S 



Carapace 



breadth 

 length total 



Front 



bet. 



orbits 



51 



66 



Chelae 

 length height Locality 

 (r. 39 32 



'i 1. 38 



32) 



Bermuda 



