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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Cancer irroratus Continued. 



(i small), 44 (i small), 45 (i small), 46 (several), 

 48 (2), 49 (2 small), 52 (many small), 53 (many 

 small), 59 (6, many young), 60 (few small), 61 

 (i small), 63 (i small), 64 (few small), 65 (2 

 small), 66 (i), 68 (2 small), 70 (few small), 71 

 (several small), 73 (2), 74 (2 small), 75 (2), 76 

 (few), 77 (few), 79 (i), 81 (i small), 82, 84, 85, 

 102 (4 young), 104 (2 young), 107 (7), 112 

 (young), 113, 114 (young), 122 (i young), 127 

 (i small). 



Smith reports the zoese and megalops stages as 

 being abundant in June and July. 



This crab is important as a food of fishes. Smith 

 reports it from the stomachs of the striped 

 bass, sea bass, tautog, kingfish, sea robin, 

 goosefish, summer flounder, toadfish, dogfish, 

 dusky shark, sand shark, common skate, Raja 

 Icems (?), Dasyatis centrura, and Myliobatis 

 freminvillei. This and the following species 

 are on the market as food, though little or no 

 fishery exists locally. 



Cancer borealisStimpson. Jonah crab. [Chart 116.] 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 546,395; S. I. Smith, 

 1879, p. 39; R. Rathbun, 1884, p. 769; M. J. 

 Rathbun, 1905, p. 9. 



Along the sandy beach of Marthas Vineyard, 

 from Menemsha Bight to Gay Head; Cutty- 

 hunk; No Mans Land. Smith. According 

 to this writer there is a very pronounced dif- 

 ference in habit between C. borealis and C. 

 irroratus, the latter concealing itself beneath 

 rocks, the former remaining exposed. Fairly 

 common at the western end of Vineyard 

 Sound; a few scattered stations elsewhere. 

 Survey. Dredged in 2 to 20 fathoms, more 

 commonly at depths of 10 or more fathoms, on 

 various bottoms. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7524 bis (i), 7537 bis (few 

 small)*, 7574 (i), 7578 (i), 7599 (i small), 7608 

 (? i small), 7676 (2)*, 7678 (2)*, 7680 (i young)*, 

 7701 (i young)*, 7704 (i large)*, 7717 (i large 

 and i small)*, 7719 (i large)*, 7720 (i large)*, 

 7726 (i medium)*, 7728 (2)*, 7738 (i small)*, 

 7741*, 7759 (daw)*. 



Phalarope stations: 24 (i young), 28 (i dead), 30 

 (i fragment), 33 (i small), 59 (3), in (i)*, 117 

 (i young)*. 



Family PORTUNID^. 



Carcinides mccnas (Linnaeus). Green crab. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 547,312, etc. (Car- 

 cinus granulatus); S. I. Smith, 1879, p. 34 (Car- 

 cinus mccnas); Bumpus, 1898, iSgSb (Carci- 

 nus granulatus)', M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 8. 



Carcinides m&nas Continued, 



Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay, and the vari- 

 ous connecting ponds and estuaries; very 

 common in shallower waters, and under stones 

 on shore up to high-water mark. 



Bumpus records the finding of females bearing 

 eggs from March till June 25. 



Portunus sayi (Gibbes). 



S. I. Smith, 1879, p. 121 (Neptunus sayi; not 

 listed for this region); M. J. Rathbun, 1905, 

 p. 8. 



Found in company with Planes mimitus upon 

 the gulfweed which is drifted into Vineyard 

 Sound during the late summer and fall, some- 

 times in great numbers. Especially abun- 

 dant during the summer of 1906. 



Females bearing eggs observed in August, Sep- 

 tember, and October. 



Portunus ordwayi (Stimpson). 



Two young specimens* taken from gulfweed 

 collected by V. N. Edwards in Vineyard 

 Sound, October 10, 1905. This is the only 

 record for New England. 



Callinectes sapidus Rathbun. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 548, 367, etc. (Cal- 

 linectes hastatus}; S. I. Smith, 1879, p. 33 (Cal- 

 linectes hastatus)', Thompson, 1899 (Callinectes 

 hastatus); M. J. Rathbun, 1905, p. 9. 



Great Pond, common. Muddy shores and bot- 

 toms and among eelgrass, particularly in 

 brackish water. Not encountered in dredg- 

 ing, with the exception of one doubtful claw, 

 dredged at Phalarope station 149, near head 

 of Buzzards Bay. 



Arenams cribrarius (Lamarck). 

 Vineyard Sound, October 10, 1905; n young 

 specimens*; Menemsha Bight, on gulfweed, 

 August 29, 1906; 2 specimens*. Not pre- 

 viously recorded for New England. 



Ovalipes ocellatus (Herbst). Lady crab. [Chart 

 117.] 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. .547, 338, etc. (Platy- 

 onichus ocellatus); S. I. Smith, 1879, p. 33 

 (Platyonichus ocellatus); M. J. Rathbun, 1905, 

 p. 9. 



Western half of Vineyard Sound, common; 

 dredged at a few points elsewhere, including 

 a few stations in the Bay; 3 to 19 fathoms, 

 almost exclusively on sandy bottoms. Sur- 

 vey. Common on the Bay shore, at the local 

 bathing beach; recorded from Menemsha and 

 Vineyard Haven. In general this species fre- 

 quents sandy shores and bottoms, burrowing 



