1879.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 399 



Carcinus mcenas Leach, op. cit., vii. p. 429 (teste Auct.); Maliicos. 



Podophth. Brit., pi. v. f. 1-4. D.ekay, op. cit., p. 8, pi. v. f. 5-6. 



Alph. M. Edw., Arch, du Mus., x. p. 391. 

 Cancer granulatus Say, 1. c, i. 61. 

 Carcinus granulatus Smith, Fish Comm., p. 547. 



A single male from Northamptom Co., Va. This is the farthest 

 south on the Atlantic coast of the United States from which this 

 species has been reported. 



Genus PLATYONICHUS Latreille. 

 Platyonichus ocellatus (Herbst sp.) Latreille. 

 Portunus pictus Say. 

 Beach of Chesapeake Ba}^, opposite Fort Monroe. Mr. James 

 Hector (Trans. New Zealand Inst., ix. p. 473, pi. xxviii. f. 1, 1877) 

 reports this species from Wellington, New Zealand. 



OCYPODOIDEA. 



Family CARCINOPLACIDiE. 



Genus EURYPLAX. 

 Euryplax nitida Stm. 



Euryplax nitida Stm., Ann. Lye, vii. p. 60; B. M. C. Z., ii. p. 150. 

 Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., ii. p. 162. 



Specimens collected by Prof. Webster, at Sarasota Bay, Fla., 

 have the front slightly arcuate with a slight sinus at the middle, 

 but not emarginate. The carpi of the chelipeds are not flattened: 

 Otherwise the specimens agree perfectly with the descriptions 

 quoted above. Proportions of a male: length, 14.7 mm.; breadth, 

 23.5 mm.; ratio, 100 : 160. There is a single specimen in the Museum 

 of the Peabody Academy of Science, which came with Platyoni- 

 chus ocellatus, Squilla empusa, and two or three other species 

 with the label New Orleans. Other localities are Florida Keys 

 and St. Thomas (Stm.), Egmont Key, Fla. (Smith). 



Family OCYPODIDiE. 



Genus GELASIMUS Latr. 

 Gelasimus minax Le Conte. 



Northampton Co., Ya. 



Gelasimus pugillator (Bosc sp.) Latreille. 



Beaufort, N. C, and Sarasota Bay, Fla. 



