1879.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 385 



Specimens were collected at Sarasota Bay. Stimpson had it 

 from St. Thomas and Tortugas. I have seen specimens from Key 

 West (A. S. Packard, Jr.). 



Sub-Family Inachinee Miers. 



Genus CHORINUS Leach. 

 Chorinus heros Leach. 



Cancer heros Herbst, Krabben und Krebse, pi. 42, f. 1. 

 Chorinus heros Leach MS., M. Edw., Crust., i. p. 315. Von Martens, 

 Arch, fur Naturgesch., xxxviii. p. 80, pi. iv. f. 2. 



Specimens in the Museum of the Peabody Academy (Florida, 

 C. J. Maynard) afford the following measurements: 



It has been reported from ~Key West (Gibbes), Cuba (Martens, 

 A. M. Edw.), Antilles (M. Edw.), Martinique and Barbadoes (A. 

 M. Edw.), Guadeloupe (Desbonne). 



Sub-Family Acanthonychinae Miers. 



Genus EPIALTTJS Edw 



Epialtus longirostris Stm. 



Epialtus longirostris Stm., Ann. Lye, vii. p. 199. A. M. Edw., Crust. 

 Mex. et Ant. Cent., p. 141, pi. xxvii, f. 5. 



Two specimens of this species were collected at Sarasota Bay. 



Epialtus minimus Lockington (Proc. California Acad., 1 8*77, p. 

 77) is a closely allied species, and possibly both should be sepa- 

 rated from the species with a shorter rostrum. 



Key West (Stm.), St. Thomas (Stm., A. M. Edw.). 



Family MAIID^I. 



Sub-Family Maiinae. 



Genus PELIA Bell. 

 Pelia mutica Stm. 



Pisa mutica Gibbes, Proc. Am. Assoc, iii. p. 171. 

 Pelia mutica Stm., Ann. Lye, vii. p. 177. A. M. Edw., Crust. Mex. 

 et Am. Cent., p. 73, pi. xvi. f. 2. 



Specimens were collected at Northampton Co., Va., Beaufort, 

 N. C, and Florida Bay, Fla. Prof. Gibbes' types were from 



