THE CRUSTACEA OF NEW JERSEY. 437 



White, Cat. Crust. Brit. Mus., XXV, 1847, p. 32. United States (Say's 



material). 



Gibbes, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Ill, 1850 (1851), p. 179. New 



York and Charleston collections. 



Leidy, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., (2) III, 1855, P- i49- Absecon 



and Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 



Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VII, i860, p. 67. Coasts of the 



Virginia province. 



Verrill, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), pp. 367, 459 (nee PI. 



I, tig. 2). Wherever oysters occur 



S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 546 (nee PI. i, 



fig. 2). Massachusetts to South Carolina. 



Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 323. Salem, Mass., to 



South CaroHna. 



Uhler, Ches. Zool. Lab. J. Hopkins Univ., I, 1878, p. 25. Fort Wool, 



Virginia. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., I, 1884, p. 765. Massachusetts to 



South Carolina. 



Kingsley, Standard Nat. Hist., II, 1884, p. 64, fig. 80. Our coast. 



Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1888, p. 333. Beach Haven, N. J. 



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



Southern Long Island. 



M. J. Rathbun, Amer. Nat., XXXIV, 1900, p. 599. Cape Cod to 



Florida. 



M. J. Rathbun, Occas. Papers Boston Soc. N. Hist., VH, 1905, p. 4. 



Salem, Mass., and southward. 



Paulmier, 58th An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1904 (1905), p. 149. 



New York City, in oysters. 



Mayer, Sea Shore Life, 1906, p. 104, fig. 72. Atlantic coast, Long 



Island Sound. 



Description. — Carapace membranaceous, smooth, subglobose, 

 little broader than long, and widest a Htde behind middle. Dorsal 

 furrows obsolete. Front very narrow, nearly straight, or but 

 slightly convex. Orbits rounded, and small. Antennules rather 

 large, robust, much larger than antennas. Latter attenuated from 

 rather robust peduncle to short flagella, and basal joint largest. 

 Eye-stalk short, much more robust than eye. Outer maxillipeds 

 fit in oblique chambers, concealing buccal mass, large ischia some- 

 what curved ovoid, and carpus and merus subequal with tuft of 

 setcT on outer end of carpus. Lower carpal flagella moderate. 

 Chelipeds subequal, weak, slender, dactyl small or about one-third 

 length of propodus, and pollex much more robust, both hirsute, 

 with approximated cutting-edges. Carpus and merus smooth, 



