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



Its range is from the Florida Keys to Brazil and to West Africa 

 and tlie adjacent islands. Common in most of the West Indies. 

 Abundant on the shores of Cuba (Saussure) ; Old Providence, Api'il, 

 9, 1884, with eggs (Str. Albatross, Smith). 



Cape Yerde Islands (Studer, Miers, etc.) ; Dahomey (Osorio); 

 Quinchoxo (Studer); Ascension Island (Miers, Benedict); Bahamas 

 (Rankin); Dominica I. (A. H. Verrill, 1906). Brazil (coll. Hartt, 

 Yale Mus.). 



'Family ALBTJNEIDiE Stimpson. 

 Albunea oxyophtlialnia Miers. 



Miers, Joiir. Linn. Soc. London, xiv, p. 329, pi. v, figs. 14, 15, 1879. Bene- 

 dict, Anom. Crust. Porto Eico, p. 139, 1901. Verrill, these Trans., xi, pp. 

 18, 62, pi. viii, fig. 1, 1901 (Bermuda, oxijcephala on p. 18 by error). 

 f Albunea Paretii Guerin, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., ser. ii, vol. v, p. 48, pi. i, 

 fig. 10. Kingsley, Proc. Philad. Acad. Sci. for 1879, p. 409 (W. Florida). 



Plate XXVIII, Figure 1. 



This species is peculiar in having eleven or twelve spines each side 

 of the central rostral tooth, and unusually long eye-stalks. In the 

 closely related species [A. Gibbesii) of the U. S. coast, there ate 

 only nine or ten teeth on each side. 



The only Bermuda specimen known to me is the one recorded in 

 1901. It was found buried in the beach sand by Mr. T. G. Gosling. 

 It is, no doubt, nocturnal in its habits. 



Its range is from West Florida to Brazil. St. Christophers, Cay- 

 enne, and Brazil (Miers). Sarasota Ba}^ W. Florida (Kingsley). 



PAGURIDEA, Stimpson, 1859. 

 Family CENOBITID-ffi. Land Hermit Crabs. 

 Cenobita Diogenes (Latr.) Edw. Land Hermit Crab. 



Paguriis Diogenes Latr., Encyc, pi. 284, figs. 2, 3 (after Catesby). 

 Cenobita Diogenes H. M.-Edw., Hist. nat. Crust., ii, p. 240, pi. ii, figs. 11-14, 

 1837. Smith, these Trans., ii, p. 38 (Brazil). Rankin, op. cit.,p. 533, 1900 

 (Bermuda). Benedict, Anomura Porto Rico, p. 139, 1901 (descr.). Verrill, 

 Geology of Bermuda, Amer. Journ. Science, ix, p. 338, 1899, fig. 12 ; these 

 Trans., vol. xi, pp. 464, 708, fig. 22a ; The Bermuda Islands, pp. 52, 296, fig. 

 22a (habits); these Trans., vol. xii, pp. 158, 179, 196, 197, fig. 60, 1906 (fossil). 



Figure 55. 

 This is the only land hermit crab of this faunal region. Easily 

 recognized by the large, massive, purplish left chela ; stout ambula- 

 tory legs ; the wide compressed propodus of the left leg of the 

 second j)air ; and the compressed eye-stalks. 



