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large basal tooth. Legs rather thick, compressed. Abdomen of 

 male of five segments. 

 Species few. 



Eupanopeus herbstii (Milne-Edwards). 



Plates 122 and 123. 

 Herbst's Crab. Mud Crab. 



Panopeus herbstii Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., I, 1834, P- 403- Coasts 



of North America. 

 — White, Cat. Crust. Brit. Mus., XXV, 1847, p. 18. United States (Say's 



material). 



Leidy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) III, 1855, p. 149. Great Egg 



Harbor, N. J. 



Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), P- 472 (oyster beds). 



• S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 547. Long 



Island Sound to Brazil. 

 — — — Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 318. Long Island 

 Sound to Brazil. 



Kingsley, 1. c, 1879, p. 393. Northampton Co., Va. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., I, 1884, p. 772. Long Island 



Sound to Brazil. 

 — Gissler, Amer. Nat., XVIII, 1884, p. 225. Florida to Brazil, Long 



Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. 

 — J. E. Benedict and M. J. Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 



p. 358, PI. 19, figs. 1-2, PI. 23, figs. 10-12. Rhode Island to Brazil. 



— Mayer, Sea Shore Life, 1906, p. 102, fig. yy. Brazil to Rhode Island 



Panopeus herbsti De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VI, 1844, P- S> PI- 9, fig- 26. 



New York, New Jersey and Virginia. 

 • Heilprin, An. Life of Our Sea Shore, 1888, p. 88. New Jersey and 



southern Long Island. 

 Panopceus herbstii Ortmann, Plankton Ex. K. Leipzig, 1893, p. 57. New 



York to Brazil. 

 Eupanopeus herbstii M. J. Rathbun, Amer. Nat., XXXIV, 1900, p. 138. Vir- 

 ginia province southward. 

 • M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., VII, 1905, p. 



6. Long Island Sound 

 Cancer panope (nee Herbst) Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, pt. i, 1818, 



pp. 58, 447, PI. 4, fig. 3. Oyster beds, etc. 

 Panopceus depressus (nee S. I. Smith) Uhler, Ches. Z. Lab. J. Hopkins 



Univ., I, 1878, p. 25. Fort Wool, Va. 



Description. — Carapace length about two-thirds its width, sur- 

 face rather finely granulated, variously convex, and regions well- 



