440 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Sesarma reticulatum (Say). 

 Plate 139. 



Ocypode reticulatus Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, pt. I, 181 7, pp. 73, 

 76, 442, PI. 4, fig. 6. Inhabits muddy salt marshes. 



Desmarest, Diet. Sci. Nat., XXVIII, 1823, p. 249 (on Say). 



Desmarest, Consid. Crust., 1825, p. 123 (on Say). 



Ocypode (Sesarma) reticulatus Say, 1. c, I, 1818, p. 442 (name only). 

 Sesarma reticulata Gibbes, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Ill, 1850, p. 180. 

 New York and Philadelphia collections. New Jersey coast. 



Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., (3) XX, 1853, p. 182 (on Say). 



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



and Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 



Stimpson, Ann. Lye N. Hist. N. Y., VII, i860, p. 66 (material in 



Smithsonian Institution). 



S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), P- 546. Long 



Island Sound to Florida. 



■ Kingsley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 323. Long Island 



Sound to Florida. 



Kingsley, 1. c, 1879, P- 40i- Northampton Co., Va. 



Kingsley, 1. c, 1880, p. 217. Virginia to Florida. 



'- — R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., I, 1884, p. 763 (associated with 



Gelasimus pugnax). 

 Sesarme reticulata Heilprin, An. Life of Our Sea Shore, 1888, p. 87. New 



Jersey and Southern Long Island. 

 Sesarma reticulatum M. J. Rathbun, Amer. Nat., XXXIV, 1900, p. 587. Cape 



Cod to Gulf of Mexico. 



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



Massachusetts and Long Isand Sound. 



fOcypoda pnsilla Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. Crit. Rev., II, Nov. 1817, p. 



42. Common in salt marshes on the south shores of Long Island. 

 Sesarma cinerea (nee Bosc) DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Crust., VI, 1844, P- I5- 



(Southern States.) 



White, Cat. Crust. Brit. Mus., XXV, 1847, p. 38. United States (Say's 



material). 



Description. — ^Carapace quadrate, surface rather evenly con- 

 vex or rolling up from in front to hind edge. Front lateral 

 edge of carapace very slightly convex and hind lateral edge 

 very slightly concave. Slight notch close below anterior termi- 

 nal angle of lateral edge. Carapace surface finely punctate, 

 and along lateral portions, or branchial regions, some rather 

 irregular oblique series of minute headings, each w^ith very 

 short hairs. Front very broad, slightly deflexed with median 

 edge a little concave. Orbits moderately small, deep. 



