A new Scyllarides from Brazil

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Vol. XIX, ^pp. 113-114

September

6, 1906

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

A NEW SCYLLARIDES FROM BRAZIL.

BY MARY

^J.

RATH BUN.

Bypermission of theSecretary of^tlieSmithsonianInstitution.

The _specimen here

described

was among

^those

^taken

V)y the

U.

S.

Fish Commission steamer

Albatross

during her voyage around

^the

Horn

in

1887-88.

Scyllarides brasiliensis _sp.nov.

T(/pe.

—

_Female, in alcohol. Baliia, Brazil. U. S. Fish

Commisgion

steamer _Albatross,

December

21, 1887. Cat. No. _21,G12, U.S. National

Museum.

Characters.

— _Very

_hairy. Carapace varying^littleⁱⁿwidth. Orbitsnear the anterior corners; distance from orbit to side margin|of distance from orbit tomiddleof carapace; transversediameter of orbit

much

lessthan longitudinal diameter. Inner margins ^of ^first ^three

movable

_joints of antennpe dentate,^teeth flattened, not erect; antepenult segment without prominent^{teeth at}^theangles.

Firstsegment ^of

abdomen

withtwo circular

and

distantred_spots,the interspace greaterthanthe distancefromeitherspot to the outer margin oftliesegment. Secondtofifthsegmentsmedially^carinate.

Crests

on

themeropodites^of^thelegs

becoming

successively^less prominent fromthe first tothe fifth pair; the

same

is true of their terminal teeth.

Very

slight crestsonthe carpopodites^; propoditesrounded above.

Legs^{of third}^to^fifthpairsrather long

and

narrow.

Measurements.

—

_Lengthof carapace,86.5; greatestwidth,^80.5

mm.

Remarks.

—

_Allied_to_S.

cequinoctialis (Lund).*

*Skrivt.Naturh.—Selsk.,Copenhagen,11.pt.2,p. 21, 1793.

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