10 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



TIIORACOSTRACA. DECAPOD A. 



CANCRIDAE. 



Plati/carcinus irroratus De Kay, Nat. hist. Xew York, pt. 6, 

 Crust., 1844, p. 6, pi. 2, fig. 2. 



From under rocks near low- water mark to 314 fathoms. 

 From Eastport, Me., to Conn. 



24. Cancer borealis Stimpson. 

 Jonah crab. 



Cancer borealis Stimpson, Ann. lye. nat, hist. N. Y., 1859, 

 vol. 7, p. 50. "a northern species, not fouxd south of 

 Cape Cod, although extending to the northward at least 

 AS FAR AS Nova Scotia." Smith, Trans. Conn. acad. sci., 1879, 

 vol. 5, p. 39, pi. 8. 



Eocks near low tide to deep water, 435 fathoms. 



Me. — Bay of Fundy ; Casco Bay. 



N. H. 



Mass. — Salem ; Manomet Point ; Chatham ; Vineyard Sound ; 

 No Mans Land. 



R. I.— Off Watch Hill ; off Newport ; Narragansett Bay ; off 

 north end of Block Island. 



Conn.— Off Noank. 



INACHIDAE. 



25. Chionoecetes opilio (O. Fahricius). 



Cancer phalangimn O. Fabricius, Favna Groenlandica, 1780, 

 p. 234. Greenland. 



Cancer ojnlio O. Falmcius, K. Danske vid. selsk. skr., nye 

 saml., 1788, vol. 3, p. 182, plate. 



Chionoecetes opilio Kroyer, Naturh. Tidssk., 1838 (1), vol. 2, 

 p. 249. 



Me. — Off Casco Bav, in fish stomachs. 



