August 10, 192k. From /weeds on rocks, off northern end of Loggerhead Key. 
Brown Portunid, general color sort of cinnamon rufous or hazel, corneae 
ochraceous, paddle itself transparent, legs barred with dirty white, like cream 
buff. Fingers, except extreme whitish tips, chestnut followed by bar of dirty 
white running to middle of finger. On fixed finger white bar largely obscured 
by sort of bluish haze over whole like heliotrope purple, modified by the 
brown. Is on bases of both fingers. 
From holes in rocks, two whitish pinkish alpheids (Synalpheus) ^i±kx±sc« 
whltiwh with distal margin of palm and both fingers of large chela grass 
green, ditto for distal parts of fingers of small chela, rest of legs and 
flagellae faintest blue; two larger alpheids, more or less pinkish flesh all 
over, eggs grass green; and two Crangon formosus. Six specimens in same vial. 
August 10, 192k. Off northern end of Loggerhead Key. 
Two Portunids from conch shell. Larger sort of right half of salmon 
buff with olive grey 4- and X a little indigo blue markings on carapace and carpus 
and merus of paddles, and same of chelipeds. Ambulatories, two distal 
joints claret brown, rest of leg Mars brown. 
Smaller one badly in pieces over night; looks as though it died and* 
Both were in one large jar. 
larger ate part./ Smaller one more or less sulphur yellow with tinges? of 
salmon on higher parts of carapace, chelipeds like carapace, but fingers marked 
like larger specimen, smaller claw deformed. Paddles sulphur yellow. 
Ambulatories, dactyl wine purple, of which a fix tinge is on the distal half 
of the propodus, fading out still more on proximal half, carpus still lighter 
like faint lilac, merus about white. 
