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(Plate IX, figure 5). In this last specimen there is evidence of 
injury in the irregular outline of one of the lateral angles of the tip 
of the telson, in the irregularity of the spines, and particularly in the 
supplemental group of three aculei near this irregular angle as shown 
in the figure. 
The largest specimens examined are from the Bay of Fundy, the 
largest male being I7 ram in length, and the largest female 25 inm . 
The color in life varies considerably, as the following notes, un- 
fortunately all made upon adult females, show. A specimen, taken 
among stones and algje at low-water mark at Eastport, Maine, was 
translucent specked upon the body and appendages with bright red, 
and with a white dorsal line extending from the tip of the rostrum to 
the telson. Another, dredged at Eastport, in 20 to 25 fathoms, rocky 
and shelly bottom, was faintly specked with pale red on the carapax 
and the sides of the abdomen ; the antennse, antennulse and cephalo- 
thoracic legs annulated and the abdominal legs, telson and the uro- 
podal lamellae banded with the same color. Still another specimen, 
from 40 to 50 fathoms, rocky bottom, at Eastport, was much more 
brilliantly colored, though after the same pattern : the eye-peduncles 
and the bases of the antennulae, antennae and cephalothoracic legs 
were thickly specked with bright red, the distal portions of the legs 
and the flagella of the anteunulae and antennae were closely annu- 
lated, while the antennal scales, carapax and abdomen were trans- 
versely banded with the same color; the band upon the sixth segment 
of the abdomen and that across the telson and uropodal lamellae 
were nearly as broad as the length of the sixth segment and the tel- 
son respectively, and very deep bright red. A considerable number 
of specimens taken among stones and red algae upon the Cod Ledges, 
Casco Bay, were very brightly colored, much in the same way as the 
last specimen. According to notes made by Professor Veri-ill in 
1870, two specimens dredged in 15 fathoms, stony bottom, north of 
Treat’s Island, Eastport Harbor, differed considerably in color; one 
was pale flesh-color with a median dorsal stripe of whitish and the 
sides speckled with pale red, the flagella of the antennuhe and anten- 
nae having alternate bands of pale reddish and flesh-color, and the 
legs thickly speckled with light brownish and obscurely banded with 
the same; while the other specimen was pale grayish, with about 
five transverse whitish bands on the abdomen, and a dark gray band 
across the sixth segment and another across the telson and uropodal 
lamellae, and with the cephalothoracic legs banded with white and gray. 
Females carrying eggs are abundant in all the collections 1 have 
