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females use either of their small claws indifferently for this 

 purpose. More or less sand is also ahva\^ swallowed with 

 the food. The crabs have also been seen engaged in scraping 

 up the surface of the sand where their favorite algse was cov- 

 ered, and this was formed into pellets and carried into their 

 holes, in the same way that the sand was brought out. This 

 was thought to be stored until needed for food, for large 

 quantities were often found stored in the terminal chambers 

 of the burrows. 



In New Jersey I have seen it at a number of places, as 

 Cape May, Ocean City, Atlantic City and Sea Isle City. The 

 specimens before me are from Cape May, Atlantic City and 

 the southern side of Townsend's Inlet. I also found it abundant 

 at Lewes in Delaware, and Chincoteague in Virginia. Mr. W. T. 

 Davis found it at Center Island in Oyster Bay. Long Island, N. Y. 



Uca minax (Le Conte). 

 Plates 144 axd 145. 



Rcd-jointcd Fiddler Crab. Fiddler Crab. 



Gelasinius Diiiiax Le Conte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.. VII, 1855, p. 403. 

 Bcesley's Point. New Jersey. 



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



Harbor and Dennis Creek, Cape May County, New Jersey. 



S. I. Smith, Trans. Conn. Acad., II, 1870, p. 128, PI. 2, fig. 4. PI. 4, figs. 



i-ib. Connecticut, New Jersey, South CaroHna, Florida. 

 Verrill, Rep. U. S. P. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 467 (note on habits). 



S. I. Smith, Rep. U. S. F. Com., I, 1871-72 (1873), p. 545. Southern- 



New England to Florida. 



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



Florida. 



Kingsley, 1. c, 1879, p. 399. Northampton Co., Va. 



Kingsley, 1. c, 1880, p. 148. Beesley's Point and Dennis Creek, New 



Jersey ; Virginia. 



R. Rathbun, Rep. Fisher. Ind. U. S., I, 1884, p. 763. Southern New 



England to Florida. 



Heilprin, An. Life of Our Sea Shore, 1888, p. 84. New Jersey coast 



and southern Long Island. 



Paulmier, 58th An. Rep. N. Y. State Mus., IV, 1904 (1905), p. 147, 



fig. i6b. New York City. 



