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I have met with it at Ocean City, Seaside Park, Sea Isle 

 City, Stone Harbor, Anglesea and Cape May. Mr. Witmer 

 Stone found it at Point Pleasant. It also occurs along the coast 

 of Delaware at Lewes, Rehoboth and Indian River Inlet. In 

 Virginia I found it at Assateague and Cedar Island. Mr. W. T. 

 Davis notes it from Staten Island, New York. 



Genus CHIRIDOTEA Harger. 



Chiridotea Harger, Amer. Journ. Sci. Art., (3) XV, 1878, p. 374. Type 

 Idotea cwca Say, first species, designated. 



Head sides emarginate and produced laterally beyond eyes. 

 Eyes dorsal. Second antennae with multiarticulate flagellum. 

 Epimera of all thoracic segments, except first, distinctly sepa- 

 rated from the segments. Abdomen of four segments, with 

 lateral sutures at base of terminal indicating another partly 

 coalesced segment. Palp of maxillipeds of three segments. 

 First three pairs of legs prehensile, with sixth segment of pro- 

 podus dilated to form, with reflexible dactylus, the subchelate 

 hand. Last four pairs of legs ambulatory. Inner branch of 

 uropods half as long as outer branch. 



Species of small size, represented by but one on our shores. 



Chiridotea coeca (Say). 



Plate 80. 



Idotea cceca Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1818, p. 424. Coast of the 

 United States. 



Kingsley, Standard Nat. Hist., H, 1884, p. 71. Our coast. 



Idotea caca De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VI, 1844, p. 42. Massachusetts to 



Florida. 

 — White, Cat. Crust. Brit. Mus., XXV, 1847, p. 94. United States 



(Say's material). 

 Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 340 (habits). 



Harger, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 569, PI. 5, fig. 22. 



Massachusetts to Florida. 



Heilprin, An. Life of our Sea Shore, 1888, p. 97. New Jersey coast 



and southern shore of Long Island. 

 Chiridotea caca Harger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879. p. 159. (Southern 

 New England.) 



