THE CRUSTACEA OF NEW JERSEY. 377 



M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Pap. Boston S. Nat. Hist., Vll, 1905. p. I5- 



Bay of Fundy to Block Island. 

 Eupagurus pubescens S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), 



p. 549. In deep water off coast of New Jersey, northward to Greenland 



and Northern Europe. 

 — S. I. Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., V, 1879, p. 47. N. Lat. 40°, W. Long. 



y2° in 32 fathoms, and off Block Island. 



S. I. Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI, 1883, p. 26. N. Lat. 40°, W. 



Long. 70° in 26-67 fathoms. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., I, 1884, p. 780. New Jersey to 



Greenland. 



S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., XIII, 1885 (1887), p. 641. N. Lat. 



39°-40°, W. Long. 69°-70°, in 30-78 fathoms. 



Howe, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XIX, 1899 (1901), p. 240. N. Lat. 39°-40°, 



W. Long. 70° trawled. 



Description. — Eye-stalks reach middle of last joint of an- 

 tennular and antennal peduncles, respectively. Chelipeds pubes- 

 cent, armed with tubercles with a spiny tendency. R,ight cheliped 

 with wrist equal to hand in length and spines along its inner edge. 

 Left cheliped with central carina along upper surface of hand. 

 Ambulatory limbs pubescent and spiny. Length about 50 mm. 



(Henderson.) 



Remarks. — This is largely an off-shore or deep-sea species, 

 living in water of five hundred fathoms depth. Though not 

 definitely recorded from the State, it is mentioned by Prof. S. I. 

 Smith as ranging from New Jersey northward to Greenland and 

 Europe. I have not seen any examples. 



Sub-Order BRACHYURA. 



The Short-Tailed Crabs. 



Carapace with well-defined lateral border to greater part of its 

 dorsal surface, with an epimeral suture or its homologue (a linea 

 anomurica) on either side. Front often in contact with epistome, 

 often broad. Abdomen much smaller than cephalothorax, be- 

 neath which it folds. Abdominal plura, when distinguishable, in 

 same plane and in same straight line with abdominal terga. 

 Thoracic sternum usually broad, last segment never independently 

 movable, usually channelled in median line for lodgment of male 



