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examples, several dry ones, obtained at Point Pleasant by Mr. 

 Witmer Stone. This animal has never before been recorded in 

 New Jersey. 



Idotea balthica (Pallas). 

 Plates 79 and 150, Figure 3. 



Onicus halthicus Pallas, Spic. Zool., I, 1772, p. 66, PI. 4, fig. 6, a-d. "hoi- 



saticr." 

 Idothea baltica H. Richardson, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 54, 1905, p. 364, 



figs. 394-395. Gulf of St. Lawrence to North Carolina. 

 Stenosoma irnorata Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1818, p. 423. Egg 

 - Harbor, New Jersey. 



De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VI, 1844, p. 43, PI. 10, fig. 42. Boston 



Harbor to Cape May. 



Heilprin, An. Life of our Sea Shore, 1888, p. 97, Pi. 7, fig. 4. New 



Jersey coast and southern shore of Long Island. 

 Idotea irrorata White, Cat. Crust. Brit. Mus., XXV, 1847, p. 94. Egg Harbor, 



New Jersey (Say's material). 

 — Leidy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) III, 1855, p. 150. Absecon 



and Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 

 ■ Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 316 (habits). 



Harger. Rep. U. S. F. Com., L 1871-72 (1873). P- 569, PI- 5, fig- 23. 



Bay of Fundy to Great Egg Harbor, N. J. 



Harger. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. II, 1879, P- 60. New England and 



southward. 



Harger, Rep. U. S. F. Com., VI, 1878 (1880), pp. 343. 433, PI- 5, figs. 



24-26. Great Egg Harbor, N. J. (Fire Island Beach, Long Island, and 

 New England.) 



Kingsley, Standard Nat. Hist.. 11, 1884, p. 71, fig. 94. (Coast of 



United States understood.) 



Benedict, Rep. U. S. F. Com.. XI, 1883 (1885), p. 176. (Off Montauk 



Point, Long Island.) 



— ■ Heilprin, An. life of our Sea Shore, 1888, PL 7, fig. 4. New Jersey 



coast and southern shore of Long Island. 

 Idotea marina (nee Linnaeus) Miers, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, XVI, 1883, 



p. 25. Gulf of St. Lawrence to Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 

 Idothea marina H. Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, p. 540. 



Gulf of St. Lawrence to North Carolina. 

 Paulmier, 58th Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1904, p. 175, fig. 47. (Shore 



of New York City.) 

 M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. N. Hist., VII, 1905, p. 40. 



(Bay of Fundy to western end of Long Island Sound.) 



Description. — Body oblong, ovate, length almost three times 

 width. Abdomen with length little over one-third entire body 



