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century, which was certainly preoccupied by J. C. Fabricius' Cancer 

 phalangiurn (Stenorhynchus phalangium Milne- Edwards), and which 

 was apparently rejected by Otho Fabricius himself. 



Hyas araneus Leach ex Linne. 



Massachusetts Bay, about ten miles southeast from Salem !, 35 

 fathoms, mud and clay nodules, 1877; Stellwagen's Bank!, 22 to 



34 fathoms, sand and rocks, common, 1873. Casco Bay!, 1873, at 

 the following localities: Haddock Ground oif Whaleboat Island, 14 

 fathoms, gravel and broken shells; Broad Sound, 16 to 22 fathoms, 

 stones and shells; northwest of Eagle Island, 13 fathoms, spongy 

 bottom. Bay of Fundy !, 1868, 1872. Le Have Bank!, latitude 42° 

 44' north, longitude 64° 36' w^est, 60 fathoms, sand and gravel, 1872. 

 Off Chebucto Head!, Nova Scotia, 20 fathoms, mud and tine sand, 

 1872. In and near Halifax Harbor!, N. S., 1877: 16 to 21 fathoms, 

 very fine sand and red alga3 ; 18 fathoms, mud and fine sand, Sept. 

 15, very large specimens, some carrying eggs ; 16 to 25 fathoms, 

 rocks and nullipora, and stones, gravel, etc. ; also in Bedford Basin, 



35 fathoms, soft mud, a small specimen only. Newfoundland Banks !, 

 from stomachs of cod-fish (collection Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.). Gulf of 

 St. LaAvrence !, " rare" (Whiteaves). Labrador ! (A. S. Packard, Jr.). 



Greenland (O. Fabricius, Kroyer et al.); Disco Island, 5 to 20 

 fathoms (Valorous Cruise, Norman). Sea of Ochotsk (Brandt, Mid- 

 dendorff's Sibirische Reise, Krebse, p. 79, 1851). Iceland (G. O. Sars). 

 Spitzbergen (Goes, Q5fversight af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akad. Forhand- 

 lingar, Stockholm, 1 863, p. 161 (1)). Coast of Norway! (G. O. Sars), 

 British Islands! (Norman), and on the continent of Europe, as far 

 south as the coast of Belgium (Yan Beneden), and according to Milne- 

 Edwards (Hist. nat. des ('rust., i, p. 312, 1834) to that of France. 



Upon our coast this species is miich less abundant than the next. 

 I have never seen specimens from south of Cape Cod. 



Hyas coarctatus Leach. 



Coast of New Jersey (Leidy) and of Long Island (Say). Block 

 Island Soixnd !, 8 to 15 fathoms, stones, gravel and sand; and Coxe's 

 Ledge !, east-southeast of Block Island, 21 fathoms, rocky bottom, 

 1 874. Stellwagen's Bank !, 22 to 44 fathoms, rocky and sandy, — abun- 

 dant ; Jeffrey's Ledge !, 24 fathoms, gravel and stones, — abundant; 

 and Massachusetts Bay !, 29 and 33 fathoms, gravel and stones, 1873. 

 Massachusetts Bay, off Salem!, 1877: 22 fathoms, gravelly; 48 

 fathoms, soft mud, August 13, — some females carrying eggs. Gulf of 



