#34. Dec. 8 , 1926. Rising tide, 6.30 - 7-00 a.m. Water 
Along boulder covered beach to left of "factory" Juan Fernandez. Water 
temp. 17-2° C. Got a small Plagusia and had a young (tiny) transparent 
stomatopod in bottle with few other things, but lost sight of it on return, 
though I made a particular search through the bottle contents for it. Got 
a purplish Xanthid. 
In vial, black grapsoid with broader meri and larger eyes is sort of 
clove brown with few gray specks on carapace 
and a similar colored mark near middle of 
,4 b a / *■ (Jetted 
hinder end. J^ine color of carapace 
below sort of dead white, finger tips 
light corneous color =3 pale ochre yellow or buff yellow. 
Other grapsoid more or less olive with a suggestion of ochraceous. 
Single Xanthid with black fingers has chelae mauve tending toward violet 
above, carapace is bay with " high lights" of maroon, legs bistre—-vandyke 
brown. 
(l) Smallest Xanthid in vial pepper & salt color, blackish and "bistre" 
white, contrasty. (2) Next smallest much like it but color of carapace more 
all one color. ( 3 ) Third from smallest has seal brown, nearly black, carapace 
and about same color hands above, but flushed in front with dark prune-purple, 
a splotch especially articulation of right hand, legs bistre, cross banded 
darker and lighter. Fingers bay color. 
Other three Xanthids in same vial (l) largest much broken one burnt 
umber; ( 2 ) complete spec, more a seal brown. #(l) with mummy brown fingers and 
more or less brick red hands. #( 2 ) sort of the dark of maroon purple to 
hazel, fingers decidedly hazel. Legs of both bistre. 
Isopod bottled alone the only one of its color seen—half way between 
apple green and oil green, uniform color all over. A large isopod added was 
between orange vermillion and dark of Chinese orange in color; there are about 
l /2 doz. of this color and kind in vial of saved isopods. 
