50 S. I. Smith — Crustaceans of the Atlantic Coast. 



Harbor in 77 fathoms, nuxd and stones; and oiF White Head, Grand 

 Menan, in 40 to 50 fathoms, and 97 to 105 fathoms. In the region of 

 St. George's Banks !, 1872, it was common in 50, 60 and 65 fathoms, 

 sand and shells; 45 fathoms, coarse sand; 150 fathoms, sand and 

 mud; and six rather small specimens were brought up from 430 

 fathoms, sand, gravel and stones. Near Cashe's Ledge !, Gulf of 

 Maine, 52 to 90 fathoms, rocky ; 65 fathoms, mud and sand, and 110 

 fathoms, mud, 1873-4. Fifteen miles southeast of Monhegan Island !, 

 off the coast of Maine, 82 fathoms, brown mud, 1873. Off Shelburne !, 

 Nova Scotia, 47 fathoms, stony, 1877, Le Have Bank!, 45 fathoms, 

 gravel and stones, and 60 fathoms, stones and sponges, abundant, 

 1872. Halifax Harbor!, Nova Scotia, 16 fathoms, fine sand and red 

 algre, 1877. Off Halifax!, 57 fathoms, mud and pebbles, 187*7. One 

 hundred and twenty miles south of Halifax!, 190 fathoms, 1877. 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence !, " widely distributed through the Gulf" 

 (Whiteaves). Labrador (A. S. Packard, Jr.). Greenland (Kroyer). 

 Puget Sound (Stimpson). Lofoten Islands !, coast of Norway (G. O. 

 Sars), and probably all the coast of northern Europe. Those from 

 the coast of Norway, labeled jjubesce/is by Professor G. O. Sars, are 

 very characteristic specimens of Kroyeri. Norman's remark under 

 Pagurus puhescens (Last report on dredging among the Shetland 

 Isles, Keport British Assoc. Advanc. Sci. for 1867, p. 264) that " a 

 variety occurs in which the hands are entirely free from the hairs 

 which ordinarily clothe them" probably refers to this species. 



Parapagurus, gen. nov. 

 The genus here proposed is allied to Eupagurus and Paguristes, 

 but the branchiae (of which there are eleven pairs, two each at the 

 bases of the external maxillipeds and the three first pairs of cephalo- 

 thoracic legs, and three at the bases of the fourth pair of cephalo- 

 thoracic legs, — as in Eupagurus bernhardus) are composed of numer- 

 ous cylindrical papillae, as in the majority of Macrura, instead of 

 lamellffi, as in most Paguroids. It also difiers from Eiqxigurus in hav- 

 ing well-developed and symmetrically paired male appendages upon 

 the first and second segments of the abdomen, and fi-om Paguristes 

 in the chelipids being very unequal and the external maxillipeds 

 widely separated at their bases, — in both of which characters it agrees 

 with Eupagurus. The small size of the eyes, the great length of the 

 antennulse and antenme, and the narrowness of the sternum between 

 the bases of the second and third pairs of cephalothoracic legs, are 

 apparently additional generic characters. 



