August 1, 1924. Large blue Xanthid from apparently more or less stagnant pools 
at wide point of dead ? parts of Bush Key Reef. 
General color blackish slate, with more or less plum colored cast, or helio¬ 
trope purple; hinder parts of carapace and hinder part of carpus of chelipeds 
mottled with dirty white between cream color and maize yellow as it is in color 
manual. Hands in smaller specimens often with almost black prune purple splotches 
along median longitudinal 1/3, sometimes in larger ones, too. Lower fourth of 
hands inside and out white, rest mottled with violet (magenta tinged) with 
reticulations of white. Fingers seal X Vandyke brown, tips drab, become lighter 
towards and white at extreme apices. Teeth of larger hand white. Corneae blackish 
slate. Underparts white tinged with magenta on sternum (sometimes not at all and 
with French grey). Region below eyes and mouth parts with pale sage greenish 
cast flecked with blackish slate. 
