rathbun: some cuban Crustacea. 



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longest spines on the telson; it bears a slender, movable spine near 

 the end of its outer margin. 



Dimensions. — Type 9 , total length of body 42 mm., length of 

 carapace 14.5 mm., of abdomen 26 mm. (approx.) 



Dr. Barbour's notes on this species are quoted in full : — 

 "This is how we came to get the new red shrimps. Sitting with 

 Dr. Carlos de la Torre at his house one afternoon looking over some 

 manuscript notes of Poey's, which he is editing, we came across a 

 bare statement on a sheet of paper in Poey's portfolio that in a cave 

 between Morro Castle and Cojimar there were shrimps which the 

 country people said were already cooked, they looked so red. We 

 became quite interested over this note and Torre suggested at once 

 that we get a boat and go over to Morro Castle where Poey's old 

 fisherman-collector lived. It was quite dark and we had some diffi- 

 culty finding a boat along the waterfront, but finally secured one, 

 rowed over and found the man, who said that he remembered dis- 

 tinctly where the cave was, and that he himself had told Poey of the 

 existence of these shrimps. He promised to go with us the next morn- 

 ing. Bright and early the following day Dr. J. L. Bremer, Dr. de la 

 Torre, and myself all returned to the Morro where we met our fisher- 

 man friend with a motley following. A long, hot walk through the 

 scrub brought us to two sink holes, some distance apart, evidently 

 places where the roof of two low caves had partly fallen in, permitting 

 one to look down a great depth into a very deep cavern, almost full 

 of clear, slightly brackish water, which we were told, fluctuated 

 slightly with each tide. In both of these caves the red shrimps were 

 very abundant and in one of them a blind fish, probably Stygicola, 

 was also seen. In life they were a beautiful, translucent, crimson 

 color, while the long antennae and the first pair of chelate append- 

 ages were pure white, contrasting strongly with the color of the 

 body of the animal and the other legs. We brought a number of 

 these back to Havana alive as well as a supply of water from the 

 cave. We had hoped that it might be possible to bring some north 

 with us alive, but in this we were entirely unsuccessful." 



POTAMONIDAE. 

 Epilobocera cubensis Stimpson. 



Epilobocera cubensis Stimp., Ann. Lyc. nat. hist. N. Y., 1860, 7, 

 p. 234. 



San Diego de los Banos. M. C. Z., 7,413. 



