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I.I.*«T OF MAKINE INVEKTEBRATA FROM THE NEW ENOIiAIVD 

 COAST, DISTRIBUTED BY THE IJ. S. €0M1TIISSI01V OF FISH AND 

 FISHERIES. 



Series I. 



[Distributed in fifty sets, put up by Mr. Richard Ratbbun, under the direction of 

 Professor A. E. VerriU, 1879.] 



EXPLANATION. 



TLe specimens included in tlie following list are preserved in alcohol, 

 unless otherwise stated. The authority given for the name is usually 

 the author who first used the combined binomial name herein adopted, 

 and is not necessarily that of the author who first described the species, 

 or gave the specific name. (A name in parentheses is authority for the 

 specific name only.) 



The species are not all included in each of the fifty sets, but those 

 sent in each numbered set are checked on the list bearing the correspond- 

 ing number. The species now distributed are not to be considered as 

 the most common, but simply those which happen to be at present most 

 abundantly represented in the collections of the Fish Commission, or 

 those which, for other reasons, can be most conveniently distributed at 

 this time, and have been so selected as to give representatives of most 

 of the important groups. It will also be understood that the species 

 included in this list form but a very small proportion (less than one- 

 twelfth) of the total number of species contained in the collections made 

 by the Fish Commission on the New England coast. 



PYCNOGONIDA. 



1. Nymphon hirtum Fabr. 



U. S. F. C— OlfHalifax, N. S., 52fath., 1877. 



2. Phoxichilidium maxillare Stimp. 

 U. S. F. C. — Casco Bay, shore. 



MEROSTOMATA. 



2a. Limulus Polyphemus Latr. Dry. 

 U. S. F. C— Cape Cod Bay, shore, 1879. 



CRUSTACEA.— DECAPODA. 



2h. Gelasimus pugnax Smith. 



U. S. F. C— Cape Cod Bay, shore, 1879. 



2c. Gelasimus pugnax Smith. 



U. S. F. C. — New Haveu, Conn., shore. 



3. Gelasimus pugilator Latr. 



U. S. F. C. — Vineyard Sound, Mass., shore. 



3a. Callinectes hastatus Ordway. 

 U. S. F. C— New Haven, Conn. 



3b. Platyonichus ocellatus Latr. Young. 

 U. S. F. C— Cape Coil Bay, surface, 1879. 



4. Platyonichus ocellatus Latr. 

 U. S. F. C. — Vineyard Sound, Mass. 



4a. Cancer borealis Stimpson. Dry 

 U. S. F. C— Casco Bay, Maine, shore. 



5. Cancer irroratus Say. 



U. S. F. C. — Vineyard Sound, Mass. 

 5a. Cancer irroratus Say. Young. 

 U. S. F. C. — Gloucester, Mass., shore. 



6. Hyas coarctatus Leach. 



U. S. F. C— Gulf of Maine, 22 to 44 fath. 



7. Libinia emarginata Leach. 



U. S. F. C— Vineyard Sound, Mass. 



8. Eupagurus pollicaris Stimp. 

 U. S. F. C. — Vineyard Sound, Mass. 



9. Eupagurus pollicaris Stimp. 

 U. S. F. C— Off Nantucket I. 



9a. Eupagurus poUica^s Stimp. 

 U. S. F. C— Off Noanlc, Coun. 



10. Eupagurus pubescens Brandt. 



U. S. F. C— Coast of Maine, 20 to 34 fath. 



11. Eupagurus bemhardus Brandt. 

 U. S. F. C. — Gloucester, Mass. 



11a. Homarus Americanus Edwards. 

 U. S. F. C— New Haven, Conn. 



