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July 24, 1924, Thursday. 
Dredged with Vellela along banks and shoals west side of Island-^ 
Loggerhead Key 30+4 feet. Loggerhead Sta. 15, 16, 17 combined, average about 
30 feet water. Two Gebias living in Pholad holes in coral. Tail fan and integu¬ 
ment white (pearly or china); hairs fringing tail fan and across abdomen straw 
yellow; abdominal contents of larger specimen flame scarlet, smaller thinner 
one colorless. Hands touched with salmon color. 
Stomach forms block of purple -=islate grey f- Indian purple splotch in 
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<. thinner, smaller specimen, being really noticeable only at sides. 
Small Bortunid (? depressifrons), legs Paris blue speckled on a pale 
blue ground. Tips and margins of dactyls pomegranate purple, hinder or upper 
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margin of ambulatories brown ( brick red). Last two joints of paddles 
transparent with very few of the dark blue flecks. Middle 1/3 of carpal spine 
crimson; inside of fixed finger bright pomegranate purple; anterior meral 
spines on inner base ferruginous + madder brown. Back mottled vinaceous 
cinnamon, cream buff, vinaceous buff. 
Smashed hermit pansy purple. 
Black, or black purple 
Paney purple 
Legs purple, proximal ends white and distal end of dactyl, too; anterior portion 
purple 
of carapace pxxpass and white. 
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Epimera china blue; rest citron yellow dotted in 
diagram. Abdomen with medial stripe of walnut brown 
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and lateral stripe of geranium red. 
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Eggs scarlet. 
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