2i6 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Talorchcstia lo)igicor)iis Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 336. 

 Sandy shores. 



S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 556. Cape Cod 



to New Jersey. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., 1884, p. 825. Great Egg Harbor 



to Labrador. 



Holmes, Am. Nat., XXXVH, 1903, p. 274. Arctic America to Hatteras. 



Smallwood, Cold Spring Harbor Monogr., I, 1903. pp. 1-27, Pis. 1-3. 



Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. 



Holmes, Bull. Bur. Fish., XXIV, 1904 (1905), p. 468, figs. Cape Cod 



to N. J. 



— Mayer, Sea Shore Life, 1906, p. 97, fig. 66. Atlantic coast, near New 



York. 



Paulmier, 58th An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1904 (1906), p. 155, 



fig. 23. New York City. 

 Talorchestia longirostris Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1888, p. 22>2)- 

 Beach Haven, New Jersey. (Lapsus specifically.) 



Description. — Body elongate, robust, moderately compressed. 

 Cephalon small, convex, not prominent. Eye large. First an- 

 tennae small, but little larger than penultimate joint of peduncle 

 of second, flagellum of about six segments and about long as 

 preceding basal joint. Second antennse long, in males sometimes 

 long as body, last joint of peduncle armed with short spinules 

 and longer than all preceding joints, and flagellum longer than 

 peduncle. Epimera shorter than their segments, lower edges 

 short, setose. First gnathopods in male with fifth joint produced 

 at lower distal angle as long rounded lobe, and sixth joint distally 

 widened, lower distal angle produced and rounded. Transverse 

 palm with dactyl much protruded. Second gnathopods in male 

 with large thick oblong hand, front edge rounded evenly, and 

 hind edge nearly straight. Oblique palm with hind angle pro- 

 duced, medianly with broad convex lobe, and short dactyl 

 strongly curved at tip closes on inner side of prominence at outer 

 end of palm. First gnathopods of female as in male, but with- 

 out prominent lobe on fifth joint, and sixth joint not distally 

 broadened or produced as lobe at lower distal angle. Second 

 gnathopods weak, with second joint much broadened and well 

 convex anteriorly. Oblong hand with lower end rounded, and 

 minute dactyl on edge some distance above end of hand. Third 

 perseopods very short, second joint wide as long. Mesosome with 



