4IO REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Genus CARCINIDES M. J. Rathbun. 

 The Green Crabs. 



Carcinidcs M. J. Rathbun, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, 1897, p. 164. Type 

 Cancer tnocnas Linnaeus, virtually, as this name proposed to replace 

 Carciniis Leach. 



Carcinus (nee Latreille 1796) Leach, Edinb. Encyclop., VH, 1814, p 429. Type 

 Cancer iiicciias Linnc-eus, monotypic' (Not consulted.) 



Last pair of legs narrow, with slender and lanceolate dactyls. 

 This genus differs from all the others of the family in the 

 above character. One species in onr limits. 



Carcinides maenas (Linnaeus). 



PlaTKS 125 AND 126. 



Green Crab. 



Cancer mavias Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, 1758, p. 627. European and Asiatic 



Oceans. 

 Carcinus mocnas De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VL 1844, p. 8, PI. 5, figs. 5-6. 



Long Island Sound; Newport, R. I. 



Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1879, p. 398. Northampton, 



Co., Va. 



Kingsley, Standard Nat. Hist., II, 1884, p. 63, PI. Cape Cod to Mary- 

 land. 



Heilprin, An. Life of Our Sea Shore, 1888, p. 88, PI. 6. fig. 3. New 



Jersey and southern Long Island. 



Paulmier, 58th An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1904 (190S). P- i44. 



figs. 13. New York City. 



Mayer, Sea Shore Life, 1906, p. 100, fig. 68. Long Island Sound, north 



of New England, northern Europe. 



Carcinus mccnas S. L Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., V, 1878, p. 34. Long 

 Island Sound ; New Jersey. 



Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 321. Cape Cod to New 



Jersey. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., I, 1884, P- 774- Cape Cod to 



New Jersey. 



Carcinides mccnas M. J. Rathbun, Amer. Nat., XXXIV, 1900, p. 142. Vir- 

 ginia province. 



"Edinb. Encyclop., Am. Ed., VII, 181 5, p. ^28. 



