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CRUSTACEA. 



The following catalogue of the Crustacea has been prepared by Mr. S. 

 I. Smith, excepting the portion relating to the Isopoda, which has been 

 written by Mr. O. Harger.* The list is by no means complete, even for 

 the higher groups which are treated, and no attempt has been made to 

 enumerate the Ostracoids and free-swimming Copepods. Among the 

 Amphipods, the difficult group of Lysianassina3 has not been studied, 

 as the species require careful comparison with those of our northern 

 coast and of Europe. The same is true of the species of Ampelisca, and 

 partially of some other geneva. In several cases species are omitted 

 which are as yet only represented in our collections by imperfect, young, 

 or too few specimens. The catalogue is intended, however, to include 

 every species which has been mentioned, on good authority, in any pub 

 lished work as inhabiting the southern coast of New England. 



BRACHYURA. 

 GELASIMUS MINAX Leconte. (p. 467.) 



Proceedings Acad. Nat. ScL, Philadelphia, vol. vii, 1855, p. 403; Smith, Trans. 

 Conn. Acad., vol. ii, p. 128, PI. 2, fig. 4, PI. 4, fig. 1, 1870. 



Southern coast of New England to Florida. This species, the largest 

 of our &quot;fiddler-crabs,&quot; lives upon salt marshes, usually farther from the 

 sea than the others, and frequently where the water is most of the time 

 nearly fresh. 



GELASIMUS PUGNAX Smith, (p. 466.) 



Trans. Conn. Acad., vol. ii, p. 131, PL 2, fig. 1, PL 4, fig. 2. G. vocans, var. A, 

 De Kay, Nat. Hist, of New York, p. 14, PL 6, fig. 10, 1844, (not Cancer vocans 

 Linne.) G. pugilator Leconte, loc. cit., p. 403, (not of Bosc.) 



From Cape Cod to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies. 

 It makes its burrows only upon salt marshes, but is often seen in great 

 companies wandering out upon muddy or sandy flats, or even upon the 

 beaches of the bays and sounds. 



GELASIMUS PUGTILATOR Latreille. (p. 336.) 



Nouvean Dictionnaire d Hist. nat., 2e edit., tome xii, p. 520, 1817; Smith, Trans. 

 Conn. Acad., vol. ii, p. 136, PL 4, fig. 7, 1870. Ocijpode pugilator Bosc, Hist. nat. 

 des Crust., tome i, p. 167, 1820. Gelasimus vocans DeKay, op. cit., p. 14, PL 6 r 

 fig. 9. 



Cape Cod to Florida, upon muddy and sandy flats and beaches. 

 OOYPODA AIIENARIA Say. (pp. 337, 534.) 



Journal Acad. Nat. ScL, Philadelphia, vol. i, p. 69, 1817 ; Edwards, Hist. nat. 

 des Crust., tome ii, p. 44, PL 19, figs. 13, 14. 



This species, which is common upon the sandy beaches from Xew Jer 

 sey southward, and which I have found upon]Fire Island Beach, Long 



* The description of Scyphacella arenkola and the reference of Idotea trilola to Epelys 

 are taken from Mr. Smith s unpublished manuscript, and his name, therefore, appears 

 as authority in these cases. 



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