104 A REVISION OF THE ASTACID2E. 



species in its linear shorter areola and male appendages, which are more 

 strongly curved, and formed more on the pattern of the same parts in 

 ( '. hnmunis. In the latter species, however, these appendages are still more 

 strongly curved, the areola is not linear in any part, the rostrum is more 

 deeply excavated, longer, and (usually) toothless, the antennal scale is sub- 

 truncate at the end, and the hand different. Its closest relative is C. JL'ssis- 

 sippiensis. See description of that species, page 101. 



Some of the specimens still show spots of dark color (purplish) on the 

 chela?, carpus, and branchial regions of the carapace. In a few specimens 

 there is a very faint indication of a median carina on the rostrum. 



44. Cambarus Alabarnensis. 



Plate IV. fig. 4, Plate X. fi«s. 3, 3, 3 a, 3 a'. 



Cambarus Alabarnensis, Faxox, Proe. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., XX. 125, 1884. 



Male, form T. — Rostrum broad, punctate, subexcavated above at base, with 

 a broad, rounded, slightly elevated median carina near the tip ; sides sub- 

 parallel, punctate, ciliate ; acumen long, triangular, marginal spines slightly 

 developed. Anterior spine of post-orbital ridge hardly developed. Carapace 

 smooth, punctate, cervical groove sinuate, with minute lateral and branehi- 

 osteo-al spines; anterior margin notched at base of antenna?; areola wide, 

 short i less than half as long as the distance from cervical groove to the lat- 

 eral rostral spines), thickly punctate. Abdomen longer than the eephalo- 

 thorax by the length of the terminal segment of telson. Telson rounded 

 behind, basal segment bispinous Epistoma triangular. Antennae nearly as 

 long as the body, slender ; scale moderately broad, broadest in middle, thence 

 tapering to the apical spine. Third maxillipeds hairy within and below. 

 Chelipeds of moderate length, strong. Chela broad, thick; hand punctate, 

 inner margin of moderate length, scarcely serrate; lingers of moderate 

 length, costate, ciliate-punctate, usually meeting only through their distal 

 third. Immovable finger heavily bearded at base within, both above and 



below. Carpus sn th, punctate above: on tin- internal border there is a 



strong median spine : in front of thi<. near the articulation, is a minute spine, 

 and behind it are one or two faint ones near the base ; below, the carpus has 

 a single small spine near the external articular point of the hand. Meros 

 smooth, punctate, with two obliquely disposed spines near the anterior end 

 o!' superior binder: of the biserial spines beneath, only the distal one or two 



