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The number of dorsal aculei upon the telson varies from four to 
ten pairs. The greatest number noticed being in the case of two 
females 48 and 49 mm in length, from the coast of Norway ; the small- 
est number, in males 27 to 35 mm long and females 31 to 34 mm , from 
our own coast. That the number has no very close relation to the 
size of the individual is shown by a male 34 m,n long having six aculei 
on one side and eight upon the other; while the largest specimen 
examined, a female 56 mm long, from the Bay of Fundy, has four upon 
one side and five upon the other. In thirty specimens from New’ 
England, Nova Scotia and the coast of Norway, the terminal spines 
of the telson are as described by Kroyer, that is four median ciliated 
ones and tw T o stouter each side, making eight in all. A single female 
specimen, 31 mm long, from Labrador, differs however in having five 
median ciliated spines with two stouter spines each side, making nine 
in all, — a case precisely similar to that mentioned under II. Gaimardii. 
The following notes on the color while living were made by Pro- 
fessor Verrill on an adult female, from 12 fathoms, Johnson’s Bay, 
Bay of Fundy, 1870. Body pale flesh-color, beautifully spotted and 
barred transversely with orange-brown, the abdomen with somewhat 
rounded, unequal spots which tend to form transverse bars above, 
but on the second, third and fourth segments there is a regular band 
of this color. The carapax is spotted on the sides with orange-red 
and sparingly with sulphur-yellow ; the upper portion bluish green, 
finely specked with brown and yellow, and with three lateral spots 
on each side and two median of bright blue. Between the eyes 
and passing obliquely backward is a stripe of red. On the sides of 
the abdomen are five specks of sulphur-yellow and above these are 
two small bright blue spots on the fifth segment and a median one 
with two smaller each side on the second. The telson and uropodal 
lamellae are brownish at base, behind which there is a sulphur-yellow 
band bordered with white, the rest of the lamella* speckled with 
brown, and the outer ones with a semi-circular spot of dark purplish 
brown near the middle of the outer margin. The flagella of the 
antennae are salmon-color banded with orange-red. The first pair of 
eephalothoracie legs are red at base and on the terminal segments; 
the second are banded with red near the base and at the tip; the 
third ami fourth are red at base, then banded with yellow, whitish 
and dark brown alternately, and the terminal segments flesh-color ; 
the posterior pair are similar but have a sulphur-yellow base. The 
abdominal legs are flesh-color, spotted and transversely banded with 
dark red ami sulphur-yellow. 
