Crustacea on the coast of Ne^o England. 267 



Penseus Brasiliensis Latreiiie. 



I have never seen specimens of tliis species from the New England 

 coast, but Professor Verrill tells me that the live specimens of a 

 large Penmus, in all probability this species, on exhibition at the 

 New York Aquarium in the autumn of 1877, were said, by the 

 Superintendent of the Aquarium, to have been taken on the Connec- 

 ticut shore of Long Island Sound. Dr. Stimpson (Annals Lyceum 

 Nat. Hist. New York, x, p. 232, 1871) had already recorded its occur- 

 rence in a fresh-water creek near Somers' Point, New Jersey, and in 

 the Croton River, Sing Sing, New York, so that there can be little 

 doubt that it occasionally extends to the shoi'es of Long Island Sound. 

 It is apparently common from North Carolina ! to lirazil ! ; it is 

 reported from the west coast of Africa by Miers (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1878, p. 299), and from the west coast of Central America 

 by Kingsley (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1879, p. 427, 1880). 



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