366 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Nectylns Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. Crit. Rev., II, Nov. 1817, p. 41. 



Type Nectylus rugosa Rafinesque, monotypic. 

 Nectodactylus Rafinesque 1. c. (nom. orig. Nectylus). 



Body greatly convex, and hemispherical in cross-section. An- 

 tennnles moderate in length. Antennae with very long robust 

 many- jointed and strongly ciliated flagellum. Third maxillipeds 

 with last joint narrow, laminate and compressed. First legs with 

 last joint lamellate and oval. 



Species few, and but one on our shores. 



Emerita talpoida (Say). 



Plates 109 and iio. 



Sand Bug. Bait Bug. Hippa. 



Hippa talpoida Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, pt. i, 1817, p. 160. 



United States coast. 

 ■ De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VI, 1844, P- 18, PI. 7, fig. 17. From 



near Cape Cod southward. 

 • White, Cat. Crust. Brit. Mus., XXV, 1847, p. 58. United States 



(Say's material). 

 — Leidy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) III, 1855, p. 149. Great 



Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 

 Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), P- 338. PI. 2, fig. 5. 



(Woods Holl and Fire Island); p. 530 (young) Vineyard Sound and 



Fire Island. 



S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 548. Cape Cod 



to Florida. 



■ S. I. Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., Ill, 1877, p. 311, fig., PI. 45-48. 



(Fire Island Beach, Long Island. Early stages.) 

 ■ Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 326. Cape Cod to 



Florida. 

 — ■ Uhler, Ches. Z. Lab. J. Hopkins Univ., I, 1878, p. 26. (Fort Wool, 



Virginia.) 



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



150 (remarks on S. I. Smith's observations). 



■ M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. N. His,t., VII, 1905, p. 16. 



Cape Cod southward. 

 — Paulmier, s8th Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1904 (1906), p. 135, fig. 7- 



(Southern Long Island.) 

 ■ — Mayer, Sea Shore Life, 1906, p. 94, fig. 64. New Jersey and Long 



Island. 

 Hippa talpoidea Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 336. Cape May 



and Ocean Grove, New Jersey. 



