4IO REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Genus CARCINIDES M. J. Rathbun. 

 The Green Crabs. 



Carcinides M. J. Rathbun, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, 1897, p. 164. Type 

 Cancer mccnas Linnaeus, virtually, as this name proposed to replace 

 Carcinus Leach. 



Carcinus (nee Latreille 1796) Leach, Edinb. Encyclop., VU, 1814, p 429. Type 

 Cancer ntcenas Linnaeus, monotypic.^ (Not consulted.) 



Last pair of legs narrow, with slender and lanceolate dactyls. 

 This genus differs from all the others of the family in the 

 above character. One species in our limits. 



Carcinides maenas (Linnaeus). 



Plates 125 and 126. 



Green Crab. 



Cancer mccnas Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, 1758, p. 627. European and Asiatic 



Oceans. 

 Carcinus mwnas De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VL 1844, p. 8, PI. 5, figs. 5-6. 



Long Island Sound; Newport, R. I. 



Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1879, p. 398. Northampton, 



Co., Va. 



— Kingsley, Standard Nat. Hist., II, 1884, p. 63, PI. Cape Cod to Mary- 

 land. 



Heilprin, An. Life of Our Sea Shore, 1888. p. 88, PI. 6. fig. 3- New 



Jersey and southern Long Island. 



Paulmier, 58th An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1904 (1905). p. I44, 



figs. 13. New York City. 



Mayer, Sea Shore Life, 1906, p. 100, fig. 68. Long Island Sound, north 



of New England, northern Europe. 

 Carcinus mccnas S. I. Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., V, 1878, p. 34. Long 



Island Sound ; New Jersey. 

 Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 321. Cape Cod to New 



Jersey. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., I, 1884, p. 774- Cape Cod to 



New Jersey. 



Carcinides mccnas M. J. Rathbun, Amer. Nat., XXXIV, 1900, p. 142. Vir- 

 ginia province. 



'Edinb. Encyclop., Am. Ed., VII, 1815, p. 228. 



