Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda, Part II. 43 



Nos. 7570 a to 7570 c, were from Sabanilla, N. G. Nos. 7523 

 were from Key West, Florida, tabulated by Professor S. I. Smith. 



This is one of the common large marine prawns (also called 

 "shrimp," especially when young), sold extensively in the markets 

 of the Southern United States, from Louisiana and Texas to 

 North Carolina. It is widely distributed, from Martha's Vineyard 

 and Long Island Sound to Rio de Janiero, Brazil, and West Africa 

 (Miers, Edw., etc.) Hudson River at Sing Sing, New York 

 (Stimpson); Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil (Ortmann) ; off Cape 

 Hatteras, 11-14 fathoms (Smith) ; West Africa; Porto Rico, 7-76 

 fathoms; Katama Bay, Martha's Vineyard, Sept. 8, 1900 (Rath- 

 bun) ; Sarasota Bay, W. Florida, and W. coast of Nicaragua 

 (Yale Mus.), Bahia, Brazil (Smith). Abundant at various places 

 on the W. coast of Africa (Edw. and Bouvier). 



It often occurs in vast schools in the estuaries of our southern 

 coasts, from North Carolina to Texas. It is sometimes found 

 many miles up the rivers. I have seen specimens taken in the 

 western end of Long Island Sound. Whether it ever occurs in 

 Bermuda waters in numbers sufficient for commercial use I do not 

 know. It is used as food wherever it occurs in abundance. 



It is often associated on our southern coasts with another 

 similar large species (P. setifcrus) of which large quantities are 

 also collected for food* and both are sold, fresh and canned, under 

 the name of "shrimp." Young ones are often sold as "prawns." 



Both species, in the cooked condition, may frequently be found 

 in the markets of New York and other northern cities. Large 

 quantities are canned and widely distributed. 



Penaeopsis Bate. 



Pcn&opsis (A. M.-Edwards, MSS.), Bate, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 



vol. viii, p. 182, 1881 (Type, P. scrratus). 

 Parapetucus (pars) Smith, op. cit., p. [81], 1886. 

 Petueopsis M.-Edw. and Bouvier, op. cit., p. 220, 1909. 

 Mi-tapciuciis Wood-Mason, 1891 (t. Bouvier). 

 Archipen&opsis Bouvier, 1905 (t. Bouvier). 



The rostrum is rather long, without teeth below. The last 

 thoracic segment lacks pleurobranchiae ; epipodites are lacking on 



* See Richard Rathbun, Fish and Fisheries of the United States, vol. v, 

 PP- 799-8O7, 1884, for statistics and methods of fishing for them. 



