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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. XXIII. 



RECORD OF SPECl.AIKNS EXAMINED. 



Norway; (1. O. i-^ars (Yale Univ. Mus. )• Shetland; A. M. Xorinan (Yale Univ. 

 Mus."). Firth of Clyde; John Murray (16988). Firth of Forth; A. M. Nor- 

 man (1(5979). Channel Islands; Edward Lovett (6526). Jersey; A.M. Nor- 

 man (6792). Holland (Yale Univ. Mus.). Europe (16980). 



Measurements of Pagurns bernhardus. 



PAGURUS ACADIANUS, new species. 



Paf/urnf< hervJuirda^ Gould, Invert, of Mass., 1841, p. 329.— De Kav, Nat. Hist. 



'Sew York, Crust., 1843, p. 20. 



Bernhardus strehlowjx Stimpson, Marine Invert, of Grand Manan, 1853, p. 59. 



Eitjirtgurus bernhardus Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., New York, 1859, p. 89. — 



S. i. Smith, Rept. U. S. Fish Commr. for 1871 and 1872 (1874), p. 548; Trans. 



C\.nn. Acad., V, 1879, p. 46; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, p. 428; VI, 



PIK 28, 29, 1883, pi. v, tig. 1.— Smith and Harger, Trans. Conn. Acad., Ill, 



1874, p. 27.— R. Rathbun, Fishery Industries of the U. S., l.st sec, 1884, 



p. 779. 



A comparison of K hernhardus from northwestern Europe with the 



common northeastern coast species of America has convinced me that 



they are spiH'iiically distinct. In both hands the fing-ers of E. hernhardus 



are much longer, in proportion to the length and breadth of the pahn, 



than in acadianm. The granules of the hands in the American form 



are sharper than in the European species; especially is this true of the 



lower outer curve of the clactvl of the largi^ hand, where in the Amer- 



