400 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Mr. W. T. Davis secured it at South Beach on Staten Island, 

 N. Y., January 226., 1905. 



Genus NEOPANOPE A. Milne-Edwards. 



Neopanope A. Milne-Edwards, Miss. Sci. Mex. Crust., V, 1878, p. 329. Type 

 Neopanope ponrtalcsii A. Milne-Edwards, first species. 



Carapace narrow, its length three-fourths or more of width, 

 hexagonal, regions well delimited. Antero-lateral edge arcuate, 

 about long as postero-lateral, five-toothed, teeth prominent, orbital 

 or first tooth partly fused with second, fourth tooth very promi- 

 nent, fifth sometimes much smaller and almost postlateral in 

 position. Postero-lateral edges strongly converging. Fronto- 

 orbital border from half to three-fourths greatest width of cara- 

 pace. Front from fourth to about third greatest carapace width. 

 Front advanced, with median notch and oblique, sinuous or 

 straight lobes, separated from inner orbital angle by notch. 

 Orbital angle with well-marked lobe between sinuses above, other- 

 wise orbits similar to those of Bupanopeiis. Basal joint narrower 

 than in Bupanopeiis. Terminal abdominal segment in male sub- 

 triangular. 



Species several, mostly of shores southern to ours. 



Neopanope texana sayi (S. I. Smith). 



Plate 121. 



Say's Crab. 



Panopeus sayi S. I. Smith, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XII, 1869, p. 284. 

 New Haven, Connecticut; Eastham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 



Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 312 (under stones 



in muddy places). 



J. S. Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 319. Massachusetts 



to Florida. 



S. I. Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., V, 1879, p. :iy. Massachusetts to Gulf 



of Mexico. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., I, 1884, p. 772. Cape Cod to 



Florida. 

 — Gissler, Amer. Nat., XVIII, 1884, p. 225. New England to Florida. 



