70 S. I. /Smith — Crustaceans of the Atlantic Coast. 



Hippolyte Liljeborgii Danielssen and Boeck, Beskrivelse af DOgle til Crust, decapoda 

 (extr. Nyt Magazin for Nat), p. 8, pi., figs. 15-20, 1812. — Metzger, Jahresbericht 

 der Comm. zur wissensch. Untersuchung der deutschen Meere for 1872, 1873, 

 Nordsee, 290, 18G5 (Lilljehorgi). 



Plate X, figure 3. 



Massachusetts Bay ! : about six miles south to southeast from 

 Gloucester, 40 to 45 fathoms, soft brown mud, 1878; about twelve 

 miles east-southeast one-half south from Salem, 48 fathoms, soft 

 brown mud, 1877, — common. Gulf of Maine ! : about seven miles 

 southeast by east one-half east from Cape Ann, 73 to 75 fathoms, 

 soft mud, 1878 ; fourteen miles southeast from Cape Ann, 90 fath- 

 oms, soft mud, 1877, — common; about thirty miles east-south- 

 east from Cape Ann, 85 fathoms, mud, sand and stones, 1878. Off 

 Casco Bay !, twenty miles southeast of Cape Elizabeth, 68 fathoms, 

 mud, 1873. Gulf of Maine!, seventeen miles south from Monhegan 

 Island, 72 fathoms, brown mud, 1873; Cashe's Ledge, 27 and 40 

 fathoms, rocks and gravel, and west of the Ledge, 105 fathoms, mud 

 and gravel, 1874. Latitude 42° 45' north, longitude 66° 28' west, 

 about east-southeast from Cape Sable, Nova Scotia !, 75 fathoms, fine 

 sand and mud, 1877. Le Have Bank!, 45 fathoms, gravel and stones, 

 1872. About thirty miles south of Halifax!, Nova Scotia, 101 

 fathoms, fine sand and mud, common, and also about one hundred 

 and twenty miles south of Halifax, 190 fathoms, mud, 1877. West 

 coast of Norway !, 60 to 100 fathoms (G. O. Sars). Scotland ! 

 (Norman). North Sea (Norman, Metzger). 



The males, among the specimens examined, vary from 24 to 38™'" 

 in length, and the females from 26 to 58™"\ All the American speci- 

 mens were taken in August and September, and none of the females 

 were carrying eggs. 



I haA^e seen neither Norman's nor Danielssen's original description 

 of this species and have identified it by comparison with English 

 specimens received from the Rev. Mr. Norman and Norwegian speci- 

 mens received from Prof. G. O. Sars. The species agrees well too 

 with H. Liljeborgii Danielssen as described and figured by Daniels- 

 sen and Boeck (loc. cit.). These authors state that 11. Liljeborgii 

 was briefly described by Danielssen in Nyt Magazin for Naturvidens- 

 kaberne, 1861, p. 6, thus antedating Norman's species, which they 

 quote as a synonym. Goes, however (GSfversight af Kongl. Veten- 

 skaps-Akad. FOrhandlingar, 1863, p. 170 (10)), quotes "^. Lilljeborgi 

 Danielsen, Fauna litor. Norveg. nondum edita," and neither he, nor 



