74 OU.MIS OF FAMILY ]\!A1 ID.i: IJArillU'N. 



Slatious ..rtlif r. S. iMsli ('(iimnission slnnnrr llholross. ISSS au.l 1S!M)— ('out iimed. 



I'.ottoiil. 



Fatli. I Temp. I Materials. 



Diito. 



38. 2 



40. 3 



43 



41.5 



45.5 



41.2 



"40"' 

 41 

 43 

 42. 2 



}>'y. S. bU. .sp I ■Iiuic 28 



t'no.S. iiii. M I 20 



fiio. fiV-S 29 



fiio t;" 1 29 



Jiilv 17 

 17 



l.U.S.G 



l>k. S, « 



Inc. fiv. S 



bk.tJ".: 



v. S. bk. Si> . 



Im-.L'y.S. Sli.d 

 bk. G 



40.2 



38.9 



41 



42.7 



40.8 



40.8 



40.8 



tuo. fiy.S .. 

 fno. sy. S . . 

 fno. KV.S .. 



nu. M' 



Viif. bk.S .. 



bk.S 



bk. S. Co... 

 M ^.. 



RpTwarks. 



Al>mi.l;iiil. 



ChionoBcetes opilio (<>. I'MlnicinsK 



I'l. i\ , Fi«s. r.-7. 



Caticer Phahinfi'tiim O. FiiUricius, (F.uma (ivd'ul.. i>. 1?:U. 17S0). 



VinH'vr opilio O. Fabriciu.s (Koiiijolijii' Danslco Vid. Selsk. Slcr. nyo Saml.. in, ISl. 



plate, 178S). 

 I'hioiKicrtc!^ oiiilio Ki(".ycr, \atur. lidskiil'l (1), 1'. p. 21!'. IS:5S (in (iaimard. Voyages 



eu Seandinavie, ote., Crust., pi. 1, is;5}t). Hana. ("rust. F. S. Kxpl. Fxped., 1, 



p. 78, 18.")2. Mieva, Jour. Linn. Soe. Loiulon, xi\-, p. t).")4. 187t). Smith, Trans. 



Conn. Aead., v. ]>. 11, 187i>, and synonymy. Murdoeli. Kept, of the Intornatiimal 



Folav Expedition, to Point Harrow, Alaska, p. i:{7. 1885, and synonymy. Auri- 



villius, K. Sv. Vot.-Akad. Hand., *J3, 1, p. 4(5, 1889. 

 CliioiKiirtcn b('Iiri)i(iianHs Stinipson. I'roe. lioston Soe. Nat. Hist., vi. p. 84, 18.")7; 



.Jour. Boston Soe. Nat. Hist., vi. p.44i), 1857; Froe. Aead. Nat. Sei. I'hila., i.\. p. 



L'17, 18.")7. l.oekiniitmi, Froe. Cal. Acad. 8ci.,vi. )). (!1. 187t>. 

 I'vloplonttis I'alldsii (ierstu'cker, Archiv tlir Natur., wii. 1, p. 10."). pi. 1, lig. 1, 18.".(! 



(Ajiril, 18.">7). 

 This M«'ll known siH'oios is rt'pi'O.sonU'd in tlio ( ollrction by ;i laiiio 

 scries lanjiinu' iVoin the fishing- banks oft" New loiuuUand noithwaid to 

 (Jreenland, and Iroin the Arctic coast of Ahiska .southward thronoli 

 Ueiins;' Strait and alonu' the eastern and western slioies of r.i'rinii' Sea 

 to the Ah'iitian Ishmds. where it is found in abuiuhuue. and thence 

 eastward and southward ah)nii- tlie Ahiskan coast to lliitisli Columbia.. 

 It ranges in (U'pth from sliaHow water to LM)('» fathoms on Uie Athintic 

 coast and iL'l fathoms on the Pacilic. In many of the h)tsconected by 

 the steamer AII>((tross i\\o\\'j^ the Ahiskan peiiinsnhi the si)ines of the 

 ambulatory le.us are sharper than in typical specimens. This is, liow- 

 e\er, the only ditVereiuH' observed. 



The larii'est siu'cimen is from southeastern Alaska (1(>LM)L') and has a 

 span of L'.', feet with the followinu' dimensions: Lenjith, 127; width, 

 i;r); len}i-th of cheliped, about 'jr*!!; len.uth of tirst ambulatory h\u-, about 

 'Mi) millimeters. 



Vvol'. S. I. Smith rt'cords this sijinies on the Atlantic coast as far 



