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Jul}' 27; 2 young (40792). Shore; mud; July 28, 2 young (36296); 

 July 29, 4 young (36356). Wharf; August 20; 3 young (40125). 



LONG ISLAND SOUND.— Low water; August 29, 1874; U. S. 

 Fish. Comm.; 13 young (36266). 



NEW YORK.— Fire Island, Great South Bay, Long Island; 

 September 27, 1884; T. H. Bean; 1 specimen (8919). 



NEW JERSEY.— 1929; H. G. Richards: Longport; October 20; 

 1 3^oung male (62959). Cape May Point: September 27, 1 young, 

 returned; in tide pool, September 29, 1 female (62960). 



EUROPE.— England; 1923; H. C. Kellers: Medway River, 

 Chatham; October 10; 22 males, 14 females (57417). Cowes; October; 

 5 males, 2 females (57419); 1 specimen with rhizocephalid parasite. 



Channel Islands; Edward Lovett; 2 specimens (6546). 



Jersey Island; A. M. Norman; 2 specimens (6776). 



Ostend, Belgium; specimen in Mus. Comp. Zool. 



Helgoland Island, Germany; beach; Roy. Biol. Station, Helgo- 

 land; 2 males, 2 females (19899). 



Marseilles, France; August 1922; H. C. Kellers; 42 males, 46 

 females (57416). 



Gibraltar; H. C. Kellers: December, 1922; 2 females (57422). 

 August, 1923; 3 males, 2 females (57418). 



Constantinople, Turkey : G. P. Marsh, collector; 2 specimens (2051). 

 H. C. Kellers; March, 1923, 9 males (2 hermaphroditic), 21 females 

 (57420); September and October 1923, 15 males, 15 females (57428). 



EGYPT.— Port Said; July, 1922; H. C. Kellers; 17 females (57421). 



HAWAIIAN ISLANDS^— T. H. Streets; 1 male (2299). 



Subfamily Liocarcininae (Portuninae Alcock) 



The legs often have a tendency to be stout and at least one pair 

 is as long as the chelipeds; the last pair are swimming paddles. 

 Carapace seldom very broad, antero-lateral borders cut into 3 to 5 

 teeth. Basal article of antenna either fixed or movable, usually 

 longer than broad, and lying almost in the longitudinal axis of the 

 carapace. 



Genus OVALIPES Rathbun 



Platyonichus Latreille, Encyc. Moth., Entom., vol. 10, 1825, p. 151; not 



Platyonichus Latreille, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., vol. 27, 1818, p. 4, which 



was proposed as a substitute for Porlumnus Leach, 1814. 

 Aniaopus de Haan, Fauna Japon., Crust., 1833, pp. 3 and 12; type, Corystes 



(Anisopus) punctata de Haan. Anisopus preoccupied bj' Meigen, 1803, for 



a genus of Diptera. 

 Platyonychus Dana, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 12, 1851, p. 130. 

 Ovalipes Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, 1898, p. 597; type, 0. ocellatus 



(Herbst). 



Carapace a little broader than long; five subequal teeth on antero- 

 lateral margin; three or four teeth on margin of front between orbits. 



