# 6 . 
Boy brought in some Portunids I hadn't gotten myself. Color was approxi¬ 
mately between bice, chromium, and sage green, rather uniform on one of them. 
Chelipeds and legs bluish, quite a cerulean blue. Chelipeds above in 
formalin now for about three days (my first chance to get at them) are about 
a heliotropz/purple with some suggestions of auricula purple. 
#7. Sept. 17, 1926. 
Last minute grab for seaweeds, etc. South side of Santa Elena Pt. 
Got a number of spider crabs about color of red coralline algae and from 
worm (sand) colony more Porcellanids. Got two tiny Pontonids, one of 
which had lost claws. Translucent milky white with stomach principally and 
alimentary tract partly vinaceous cinnamon in book. And one large hippolytid 
apple green, particularly the eggs (from coarse sand between rocks), and 
two sand burrowing fish. 
Moving big rock and examining puddles formed underneath and found the 
three shrimps mentioned above uncovered by the sand from sides of depression 
falling into it. One little shrimp found wedged in bottle cap of one of 
these 17 th bottles could not have come from elsewhere because of 
red rubber put in at home. 
Sept. 21, visited market again. Bought two bundles of Ucides, chiefly 
for duplicate purposes. 
Ucides eyestalks brilliant scarlet vermillion (orbits and margins above^ 
the yellow). Below lateral margin carapace orange ochraceous. Above may be 
uniform olive X sage green X olive green or the yellow with more or less oil 
green on higher bowed-up portion. Chelipeds mauve X heliotrope, spines 
light corneous, those on merus rather whitish below corneous tip. Cutting 
