334 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Homarus americanus Milne-Edwards. 



Plates 96 to 99. 



Lobster. 



Homarus americanus Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., II, 1837, p. 334. No 

 locality (except as indicated in specific name). 



De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VI, 1844, p. 23, PI. 12, figs. 52-53. Cape 



Cod, New York, New Jersey, Delaware Breakwater, and introduced in 

 Charleston harbor. 



, S. I. Smith. Trans. Conn. Acad., II, 1870, p. 251, Pis. 1-5 (develop- 

 ment). 



— I Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 395, Vineyard 



Sound, Menemsha (young), PI. 9, figs. 38-39; p. 492, Long Island Sound. 



S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 522 (metamor- 

 phoses) ; p. 549 New Jersey to Labrador. 



Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 327. New Jersey to 



Labrador. 



S. I. Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., V, 1879, p. 55. New Jersey to 



Labrador. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher, Ind. U. S., I, 1884, p. 781 (786). Near and 



south of Navesink, Long Branch and Atlantic City, New Jersey. 



■ Kingsley, Standard Nat. Hist., II, 1884, p. 53. Labrador to New 



Jersey. 



Benedict, Rep. U. S. F. Com., XI, 1883 (1885), p. 176. Off Montauk 



Point, Long Island. 



— . Herrick, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XV, 1895 (1896), pp. 5-252, Pis. 1-54 

 (habits and development). 



— Kingsley, Amer. Nat., XXXIII, 1899, p. 822. North Atlantic Coast 

 and from Cape Cod to North Carolina. 



— • M. J. Rathbun. Occas. Papers Boston Soc. N. Hist., VII, 1905, p. 18. 

 Bay of Fundy to Connecticut. 



— Mayer, Sea Shore Life, 1906, p. 83, fig. 52. North Carolina to south- 

 ern Labrador. 



— Paulmier, 58th An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1906, p. 133. Extinct 



in limits of N. Y. City. 

 Astacus marinus (nee Fabricius) Say. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, pt. i, 

 1817, p. 165. Long Branch, New Jersey. 



Description. — ^Body thick, with carapace not quite twice as long 

 as broad. Carapace rather compressed at sides, and surface 

 more or less punctate. Gastric regions separated from posterior 

 regions by groove or furrow. Rostrum narrowly pointed, 

 reaches forward trifle beyond peduncle of external antennae, and 

 upper edge with several denticulations on each side. Antennules 



