8 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



THORACORTRACA. DECATOnA. 



PILUMNIDAE. 



Under stones, toward high-water mark. Local. 



Me. — Sheepsc'ot River. 



Mass. — Massachusetts Bay. 



Conn. — East side of New Haven Harbor. 



Long Island Sound. 



POKTUNIDAE. 



19. Carcinides MAENAS (Linnet). 



Green crab ; Joe rocker. 



Cancer maenas Linne, Syst. nat., etl, 10, 1T.J8, vol. 1. p. 627, 

 "iN.OoEANO EuROPJEO, AsiATico." Fauua Svecica, IKi], ji. 



492. 



Carcinus maenas, De Kay, Nat, hist. Xew York, pt. 6, Crust., 



1844, p. 8, 1)1. 5, figs. 0, 6. 



Under stones toward high-water mark to a few fathoms, and 

 in tidal pools. 



Me. — Harpswell; New Meadows River, near Harpswell; 

 Eagle Harbor, Casco Bay ; Kittery. 



Mass. — Ipswich; Nahant ; Lynn; Cohasset; Manomet Point; 

 and from Ca])e Cod southward. 



R. I. 



Conn. 



20. PoRTUNUs SAYi (Gibbes). 

 Gulf-weed crab. 



Lupa sai/i Gibbes, Proc. Amer. assoc. adv. sci., 1850, vol. o, 

 J). ITS [14]. "coast of South-Carolina." 



JVeptunus sayi A. Milne Edwards, Arch. mus. hist, nat., Paris, 

 1861, vol. 10, p. 317, pi. 20, fig. 2. 



Surface, on gulf weed. 

 Mass. — Vineyard Sound. 



