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between spines ochraceous. Tips and middle of upper surface of movable 
fingers with spot, inner ridges of hand like fingers but with whitish 
speckling near articulation,on inner side stains of crimson. Paddles color 
of hair fringes with ridges tinged with bluish, which looks greenish. Small 
specimens more drab, a light (sort of ochre, muddy) yellow. 
Small Xanthids (Eurypanopeus planus) range in color from indigo blue X 
slate, really more slate color, to sepia X seal brown. All are variously 
mottled with little lighter speckles, olive buff or pearl blue as crabs are 
brownish or bluish. In brown or drab crabs lower half of outer face of chela 
is porcelain white with china blue tinge, of blue backed crabs is more 
purplish, between hyacinth blue and royal purple tinged. 
Rough Xanthids (Leptodius taboganus) are more of a sage greenish, generally/ 
mottled with some lighter traces of pea greenish. 
Out on outer edge of reef saw more ascidians than I ever expect to see 
anywhere, literally the rocks were covered and carpeted with them, you trod 
upon them at every step. 
Large hermit, chela malachite chromium green, edged behind and on 
proximal half of the sides with cadmium yellow X cadmium orange. Distal half 
of chela and cutting edge of fingers yellow becomes worn of more or less and white 
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takes its place. No yellow at all on cutting edges except hairs on inner side 
of movable finger. Small claw green tips, orange fingers with olive tinge. 
Legs like smaller antennular scales, cadmium orange. 
Smaller specimen has joints of cheliped similarly edged and whitish edges 
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distally, chela shiny clove brown. Tips of fingers orange, edges of tips 
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white. Legs like chela in color, dactyls with orange band just before dark 
corneous claw, only yellow for about distal l/5 of dactyl. 
