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of equal width throughout, outer surface a little wider in middle third than 

 toward ends. 



Propodal finger short, slender, directed strongly inward and distad but 

 scarcely downward. It does not, however, reach distad beyond the line of 

 the upper margin of the palm. 



The carpus has 5 low ridges which are finely tuberculate or granulate. 



Relationship. — These short hands — short for the family Partheno- 

 pidse — belong without doubt to the genus Mesorhcea, having consider- 

 able resemblance to the Recent species, M . sexspinosa Stimpson, 1 of the 

 Florida Keys and West Indies. In the latter the palms are a little 

 longer and slenderer and the inner and outer surfaces are concave. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WEST INDIAN TERTIARY DECAPODA. 



1866. GtTPPT, R. J. Lechmere. On the relations of the Tertiary formations of the West Indies; 

 with a note on a new species of Ranina, by Henry Woodward, Esq., F. G. S. ; and on 

 the Orbitoides and Nummulinse, by Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F. G. S. Quart. Jour. 

 Geol. Soe. London, vol. 22, pp. 570-592, plate 26, 3 text-figures. 



Name only, Ranina porifera, listed by Guppy on p. 572; locality indicated (p. 571) 

 as San Fernando beds, "lower Miocene," Trinidad, in "irregular dark-blue limestone, 

 containing numerous fossils generally converted into calcspar, or replaced by semi- 

 liquid asphalt." 



1866. Woodward, Henry. (See above under Guppy.) Note on a new species of Ranina (B. 

 porifera) from the Tertiary strata of Trinidad. Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, 

 vol. 22, pp. 591-592, plate 26, fig. 18. 



List of the known species of Ranina (p. 591). Description of R. porifera (p. 592) and 

 figure on plate 26, fig. 18. 



1909. Guppt, R. J. Lbchmbhb. Preliminary notice of a discovery of fossils in the Tamana Dis- 

 trict, Trinidad. Bull. Agrio. Dept. Trinidad, pp. 5-6, 1 plate. 



Describes the new species, Ranina cuspidata, and gives one figure (fig. 1) on the 

 plate. From Tamana beds, "lower Miocene," Trinidad. 



1911. Gtippt, R. J. Leohmere. On a collection of fossils from Springvale, near Couva, Trini- 

 dad. Papers Agric. Soc. Trinidad and Tobago, No. 440, laid before the Society 

 Dec. 20, 1910, pp. 1-15. 

 Ranina cuspidata listed (p. 14), with a reference to its original description. 



•Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 2, 136, 1871. 



