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Isopods slate colored, speckled with gray (next slate color) all segments 
and parts of tail fan margin with coral red margin as wide as this 
Antennae same color, eyes black, legs drab tinged with reddish, antennae 
more or less transparent. Rolling up of isopods may make than look like gravel 
among which they are found, but it makes them easy to take. Touch one sx&x 
from below and almost every time he rolled up. Boulders and gravel were bluish 
and coarse sand of that color and mixed with reddish of color of margin almost more 
like old red sandstone. Very wonderfully protectively colored. Would not have 
been able to spot them had they not moved. 
Plagusias, carapaces look between a dark olive green and sepia mixed, 
though fringes on propodi and dactyli are ochraceous buff, spines and tubercles 
all distally whitish to white at extreme tip, basally crimson (faded out). Upper 
parts of chelipeds and bare places on upper parts of legs deep rich crimson, 
almost approach maroon in darkness. 
#37. Dec. 10, 1926. 
With Sr. Durand went dredging with row boat, but, between rocks and sand, 
got very little. Bottom is very rocky, where it isn't sandy. Made about six 
dips with bottom sampler in 10-20 fathoms. Temp. 18 ° C. 
# 38 . Dec. 11, 1926, 6.30 - 9.00 a.m. 
Sample taken at low tide, 7*20 a.m. Water temp. l 8 ° C. 
Around to last, impassable point of Cumberland Bay from cannery to right. 
Rocks soft pumice and as I was pounding one to pieces for what I might find I 
got a spider; surely is covered with high tide or just about; as it is, is 
constantly wet with spray and that is pretty severe at that. Evidence algae 
and chiton and one little shell. One can see the spiders nest in little piece 
of rock Iphipped off containing nest. Got little else than a bucket of algae 
