6o 
surfaces whitish, more grey than with purplish tinge. Legs pink and red, 
propodus and carpus like chelipeds above and behind burnt carmine X geranium 
shading 
pink before and below, merus above and behind distally purplish jwwHrng into 
almost pomegranate X wine purple, behind and above, before and inside like 
carpus and propodus. Under parts are demarked 
hinder margin of carapace. Under parts 
more scarlet and between scarlet and color 
of eyestalks. 
The way the crabs are tied together is very wonderful. One can carry 
a bundle of about 9 each with a cord in the hand. Crabs are sold alive as are 
shrimps. 
Sept. 22. 
Swimming crab at market. 
Sept. 23 . 
$ 8 . Oct. 1 & 2, 1926. Salada mangroves. 
Visited Salada, Guaquil, early in a.m. Low tide, got crabs, Crangons and 
few other Macrura, 2 amphipods, and worms, Porcellanids, and some fish, all from 
digging through mud of mangrove swamp. Got terribly bitten up with tiny flies, 
still have terribly itchy lumps here on the 15 th of October. Can scarcely 
sleep for scratching. 
Oct. 4.^fcfight in hotel room, got two lu beetles. 
Water sample #8 Salada, Guaquil, Ecuador. Low tide (Oct. l/26) density 
1019. temp, at time in room F. 
