July 30, 192U. Long Key, seine. Callinectes marginatus. 
Carapace various shades of green. Legs and chela marked with French 
blue, tinged with royal purple. Adult male entire inside of hand blue and 
outside of fingers. Carapace in largest male almost bottle green marked with 
splotches of buff. Corneae grayish. Paddles Chinese orange X little salmon. 
Under parts flesh except carpal propodal and dactylar joints of legs and 
carpus and hand. Paddles beneath as above, margined with auricular purple. 
Suture lines an olive (greenish bluish olive), carpus Chinese orange X flesh. 
Larger female more gray, chelipeds bluish inside, fingers salmon X 
Chinese orange, tips pomegranate purple, no blue on outside of hand. Feet paler 
jax blue, almost Nile blue, articulating membranes like fingers of hands, 
carapace with regular spots, not splotched. Qorneae bice green , almost 
dark bottle green.on middle and hinder part of somites. 
Smaller specimen quite grayish ajlua above though still greenish, base of 
fingers bluish on inside only showing on outside in males, under parts 
white in females, tinged with salmon on end of abdomen, anterior part of 
sternum, and under side of mouthparts. Smallest spec, had no blue ±x on 
finger in larger lot. 
