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nally costated, and elongated fingers armed on interior margins 

 with large triangular lobes alternating with smaller teeth. Am- 

 bulatory legs of moderate length, dactyli styliform and com- 

 pressed. Fifth natatory legs as usual with penultimate and ter- 

 minal joints compressed and dilated, and terminal joint not 

 lanceolate as in Portumnus, but broadly ovate and rounded at 

 distal extremity. 



Species rather few, in warm seas, living in shallow and rather 

 deep water. 



Ovalipes ocellatus (Herbst). 



Plates 131 and 132. 

 Lady Crab. 



Cancer ocellatus Herbst, Nat. Krab. Krebs., Ill, I, 1799, p. 61. PI. 49, fig. A- 



Long Island, New York. 

 Platyonichns ocellatus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VI, 1844, p. 9, PI. i, fig. 



I, PI. 5, fig. 7. Our sea beaches. 

 — Gibbes, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1850, p. 24 (name only). 



Gibbes, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Ill, 1850 (1851), p. 177. New 



Jersey coast. 



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



Egg Harbor, N. J. 



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



to Florida. 



Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 324. Massachusetts to 



Florida. 



S. I. Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., V, 1878, p. 33. . Massachusetts to 



Florida. 



Uhler, Ches. Z. Lab. J. Hopkins Univ., I, 1878, p. 25. Ft. Wool. Va. 



Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1879, p. 399. Beach, opposite 



Ft. Monroe, Va. 



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



Florida. 



Kingsley, Standard Nat. Hist., II, 1884, p. 63, fig. 78 (no locality). 



Miers, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Brach., XVII, 1886, p. 202. East coast 



of United States. 



Heilprin, An. Life of Our Sea Shore, 1888, p. 85, PI. 6, fig. 5. New 



Jersey and southern Long Island. 



Mayer, Sea Shore Life, 1906, p. loi. Cape Cod to Florida; southern 



Long Island coast. 



Platyonychus ocellatus White, Cat. Crust. Brit. Mus., XXV, 1847, p. 24. United 

 States (Say's material). 



