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Limnoria lignorum (Rp.thke). 

 Plate 83. 

 Gribhle. 



Cyniothoa lignorum Rathke. Skrivt. Natur. Selsk., V, 1799. pp. lOi, 147. PI. 



3, fig. 14. (Western coast of Norway from Bergen to Nordland.) 

 Limnoria lignorum Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 379 



(habits). 



Harger, Rep. U. S. F. Com.. T. 1871-72 (1873), p. 571, PI. 6, fig. 25. 



Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey (to Bay of Fundy and Europe). 



Harger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., H, 1879, p. 161. (New England.) 



— S. I. Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu?.. H, 1879, p. 232, fig. 2. (Wood's 



Holl, Massachusetts.) 



Harger, Rep. U. S. F. Com., VI. 1878 (1880). p. 2^72. Florida to 



Nova Scotia. 



Kingsley, Standard Nat. Hist.. H, 1884. p. 71, fig. 93. Wherever wood 



is submerged beneath salt water. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., I, 1884, p. 826. Gulf of St. 



Lawrence to Florida. 



Stebbing. Hist. Recent Crust. (Intern. Sci. Series LXXIV), 1893, p. 



367. Widely distributed. 



H. Richardson, Amer. Nat., XXXI\\ 1900, p. 222. Cape Cod to North 



Carolina region. 



H. Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901. p. 532. Gulf of 



St. Lawrence to Florida. 



— H. Richardson, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 54, 1905, p. 269, figs. 279- 

 281. Gulf of St. Lawrence to Florida. 



— M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. N. Hist., VII, 1905. p. 39. 



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

 Limnorea lignorum Mayer, Sea Shore Life, 1906, p. 17. (New York to Nova 



Scotia and northern Europe.) 

 Limnoria tenebrans De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VI, 1844. p. 48, PI. 9, fig. ^},. 



(New York understood.) 

 Limnoria terebrans Leidy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (2), HI, 1855, p. 150. 



Absecon, New Jersey. 

 Heilprin. An. Life of Our Sea Shore, 1888, p. 97, PI. 7, fig. 2. New 



Jersey coast and south shore of Long Island. 



Description. — Body oblong, ovate, width one-third its length. 

 Head broader than long, width about twice its length, and front 

 edge slightly emarginated. Eyes distinct, small, placed at sides 

 of head. First antennae with first two segments subequal, and 

 third segment little longer than second. Fourth or first flagellar 

 segment half length of third, and fifth or second flagellar seg- 



