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#18. Oct. 22 1926. 
Collected around wreckage (frags, of earlier pier cast up on beach). 
Smaller stuff amphipods and small crabs combined with previous day's collection 
under #17* 
Large crab under end of iron piling sticking in mud. 
Cancer, color about burnt sienna, but with a considerable suggestion of claret 
brown, especially center of carapace. Chelae and legs darker parts of dragon's 
blood red, copiously marked and splotched with almost china white, often with a 
very pale cream buff tinge. Color runs into a prune purple on the dactyli of 
the ambulatory legs. 
Large Xanthids. General color all over lying between pansy and Indian 
purple, fore half of carapace dark, approaching the black of pansy purple, hinder 
parts, washed out whitish between, more purple and lilac, but almost rose 
purple. Chelae beautiful dark of dahlia purple, punctae (reticulated depressions) 
a beautiful rich campanula blue each and every one on purple parts of hand, each 
one very distinct. 
Large Crangon transparent, with greenish tinge. Alimentary tract in carapace 
patrot green, or is it ovaries. Hand prox. apple green, pale trans. distally 
daxksx dark, particularly fingers (black) parrot green. Everywhere speckled 
with carmine, gives green and whole anima^a black xpK speckled look to naked 
eye. Antennal flagella apple green, cornea black. 
Space just behind each eye colorless. Joints and 
somites are outlined in the parrot green; red 
spots =chromatophores. 
