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No. 146.- Geltbar.
147.- The Same, with Crystals of quartz.
148.- The Same, with a Single Crystal of Whitite.
149.- The Same, with a coniform Crystal of Mica.
150-153.- Decomposing Grains.- from the hills back of Rio, Color
brick red, resulting from the Iron in the decomposed
Mica.
154-155.- From a very narrow vein of quartz, intersecting the
grain near the Hole, just to the East of Pooja Grounds.
"Specimens of Ernatocae, Sent to the U.S. State, Dec. 1838"
(Signed) James D. Dana
From Rio de Janeiro
No. = LXV (267).- Lupus.- Color dull blue green. Four posterior pair of
legs, mostly blue, anterior purplish; cercopy towards
fine blue along the anterior margin.- 4 Specimens
y = XLII (342).- Lupa Spiniminea.- Extremities of 4 posterior pair of
legs, reddish, cercopy towards purple; anterior legs
mostly olive green above, with the extremity of the hand
brownish red.- Spines White at base, with brownish red
Tips.- 3 Specimens.
y - LIII.- Penaeus.- Color mostly grayish blue, or greenish, somewhat
clouded. 3 Specimens.
n = XXII (335).- Mea.- Color varying: olive green, yellow, more bright-
3 Specimen.
x = XLIV.- Penaeus.- light olive green along the back, sides varying to
white, with some brown and lake. Outer hairs of tail, fine thick
blue, along the inner margin Antennae, with alternat of
long rings of white & Brown. 3 Specimens.
v - LIV.- Agylla.- Nearly colorless. Spines on the margins of the 3
posterior joints of abdomen, rose-colored.- 2 Specimen
v - LXVI.- Agylla.- Nearly colorless, orange, on the legsments, bluish
olive green. 4 Specimens.
s = VI (306).- Pagurus.- Yellowish brown, somewhat reddish in abdomen,
and varying to darker brown, and blackish brown in ante-
rrior feet. 1 Specimen.
L.- Reptatus.- 3 Specimens.
LV - LXX.- Orygoda.- 2 Specimens. Burrows in a beach near Porto
(Came through, etc.)
* No. 146 has label attached to the Specimen of Ernatocae. The long white mark preceding it is [illegible]