4 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



THORACOSTRACA. DECAPODA. 



GRAPSIDAE. 



8. Planes minutus (Linue). 



Gulf--weed crab. 



Cancer minutus Linn6, S\'^8t. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. G25. 

 "in Pelagi Fuco natante." 



Planes clypeatus Bowdich, Excursions in Madeira and Porto 

 Santo, 1825, p. 15, pi. 12, figs. 2a, 2b. 



Pelagic, common in gulf stream. 

 Mass. — Woods Hole, \$ ; Warebam, 1. 



R. I. — Sakonnet Point, under rocks, 1 9 bearing eggs ( W. 

 Nye, Jr.). 



9. Sesaema reticulatum (Say). 



Ocypode reticulatus Say, Journ. acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1817, 

 vol. 1, p. 73, pi. 4, fig. 6. "muddy salt marshes." 



Ocypode {Sesarma) reticulatus Say, cy). cit., 1818, p. 442. 



On salt marshes in burroAvs. 



Mass. — Wareham ; Acushnet River, near New Bedford. 



Long Island Sound, 



PINNOTHERIDAE. 



10. Pixxotiiekes ostreum Say. 

 Oyster crab. 



Pinnotheres ostreum Say, Journ. acad. nat. ^ci. Phil., 1817, 

 vol. 1, p. G7, pi. 4, fig. 5(9), " IxHAiJiTS the common oyster." 



Planotlieres ostreum Delvay, Nat. Ilist. New York, pt. 6, Crust., 

 1844, p, 12, pi. 7, fig. 16 (9 ); Smith, Rept. U. S. commr. of 

 fish & fisheries, pt. 1, for 1871-1872 (1873), p. 546 [252], not 

 pi. 1, fig. 2 (J). 



