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brown to paler tints. Fingers gray or whitish. Eyes blackish. 

 Length 26 mm. 



Remarks. — ^Distributed along the Atlantic Coast from Massa- 

 chusetts Bay to Mexico. It is an abundant species, and much 

 smaller than the preceding, though with much the same 

 habits. Verrili says they are generally abundant in the pools 

 near low water, and concealed in wet places beneath rocks. In 

 the pools they may be seen actively running about, carrying upon 

 their backs the dead shell of small gastropods, most commonly 

 Anachis avara or Ilyanassa ohsoleta, though all the small spiral 

 shells are used in this way. They are very pugnacious and nearly 

 always ready for a fight when two happen to meet, but they are 

 also great cowards, and very likely each, after the first onset, will 

 instantly retreat into his shell, closing the aperture closely with 

 the large claws. They use their long slender antennse very 

 efficiently as organs of feeling, and show great wariness in all 

 their actions. The hinder part of the body is soft, with a thin 

 skin, and one-sided in structure, so as to fit into the borrowed 

 shells, while near the end there are appendages which are formed 

 into hook-like organs by which they hold themselves securely in 

 their houses, for these spiral shells serve them both for shields 

 and dwellings. This species also occurs in vast numbers among 

 the eel-grass, both in the estuaries and in the sounds and bays, 

 and is also frequent on nearly all other kinds of bottoms in the 

 sounds. It is a favorite article of food for many of the fishes, 

 for they swallow it shell and all. 



My numerous examples from Atlantic City, Ocean City, 

 Townsend's Inlet, Cape May and Dias Creek. I have also seen it 

 abundant at Point Pleasant, Manasquan, Corson's Inlet, Sea Isle 

 City, Stone Harbor and Anglesea. Mr. W. T. Davis says it is 

 common along the south shore of Staten Island, N. Y. 



Pagurus pubescens Kroyer. 



Hairy Hermit Crab. 



Pagurus pubescens Kroyer, Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Nat.. VII, 1838, p. 314. 



Greenland and Iceland. 

 ■ Benedict. Ann. Mag. N. Hist. London, (6) XVIII, 1896, p. 99, fig. a 



(left cheliped). New Haven, Connecticut. 



