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 Family Lithodidoe. 



LiTHODES MAIA (L). 



In 1878, fine specimens of L. maia were obtained from off Sable Island, 

 Nova Scotia, in 250 fathoms rocky bottom, by Philip Merchant and Thomas 

 Ginnevan, of the schooner Marion, and presented to the U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion (S. I. Smith, 1879; Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sc, vol. v., pp. 45 

 and 46), 



BRACHYURA. 



Family Maiadoe. 

 Htas araneus (L). 



Canter araneus, L. (1758). 



Hyas araneus, Leach (18J4) ; et auct. 



On the Nova Scotian coast this species has been dredged by the U. S, 

 Fish Commiaion, on the Le Have Bank, in 60 fathoms, and off Chebucto 

 Head, in 20 fathoms, in 1872 ; also in and near Halifax Harbour, in from 16 

 to 25 fathoms, in 1877. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, it was found abund- 

 antly at Caribou Island by Packard in 1860 ; in Ellis Bay, Anticosti, in 8 

 fathoms, rocky bottom, by the Anticosti expedition of 1861 ; and oif the 

 Orphan Bank, entrance to Gaspe Bay, etc., by the writer in 1872 and 1873. 

 On the Atlantic coast of Labrador it was collected by Packard in 

 1864, and by the Stearns expedition in 1882. 



Hyas coarctatus, Leach. 



Grand Manan, not uncommon in the laminarian zone (Stirapson). " Bay 

 of Fundy, 1864, 1868, 1870 and 1872, rarely taken among rocks at low- 

 water mark, and not uncommon in 10 to 77 fathoms" (S. I. Smith, 1879 ; 

 op. cit., p. 44). Off Nova Scotia it has been dredged by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, on the Le Have Bank in 45 and 60 fathoms in 1872 ; off Cape 

 Negro and off Shelburne, in 47 and 59 fathoms; also in and near Halifax 

 Harbour, in 18 to 57 fathoms ; in i877. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where 

 it is a favourite morsel for cod, it has been dredged at Caribou Island by 

 Packard in 1864, and at many other localities by the writer in 1871-73. It 

 has also been collected on the Atlantic coast of Labrador, by Packard and 

 the Stearns expedition. 



The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, in a paper on Arctic Crustacea, published in 

 the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for January, 1900, doubts 

 whether H. coarctatus is more than a variety of H. araneus. 



