A. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 431 



The only Bermuda specimen known to me was obtained by the 

 party from the Field Mus. Nat. Hist, on the Argus Bank, 30-40 

 fathoms, Oct. 13, 1905. It was taken from the stomach of a Hamlet 

 Grouper, and was, consequentl}^, badly damaged. It was a large, 

 specimen. 



Its range is from Florida to Pernambuco, Brazil (Rathbun). 



A number of large specimens, in the Yale Mus., were collected at 

 Dominica, 1906, by A. H. Verrill. They were caught in fish-traps 

 set in 50-150 fathoms. 



Figure 50. — Dromia erythropus from Dominica, with a flat Chalinid sponge 

 held over its back, about !> nat. size. Phot. A. H. V. 



Dromidia antillensis Stimpson. 



Dromidia antillensis Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei., Philad., for 1858, p. 225; 

 Annals Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, vii, p. 71, 1859. Smith, these Trans., ii^ 

 p. 17, 1869 (meas.). Benedict, Auom. Coll. Porto Rico, p. 132, 1901. 



Figure 51. Plate XXVIIl, Figures 2, 3. 



The carapace, which is about as long as broad, is convex in both 

 directions, high in the middle, and pretty evenly rounded, covered 

 with fine, close, yellowish hairs, beneath which it is white, nearly 

 smooth, minutely punctate. Similar hairs cover the chelipeds; 

 those of the other legs are longer. The narrow front is abruptly 

 bent downward at tip ; it bears three small obtuse teeth standing 

 equally spaced, forming a ti'iangle, in a front view ; the inner orbital 

 tooth is small and acute; the superior orbital is nearly as large and 

 acute; the inferior orbital is similar to the frontal spines in size and 

 form. There are four small, acute lateral spines, of which the first 

 two are stouter, and divergent, the first a little larger; the 3d and 

 4th are strongly hooked forward at ihe tip and very acute. The 

 carpus of the chelipeds has three distal, subspiniform angles, the 



