102 Addison E. Verrill, 



are not necessarily even cotypes. They may have been collected 

 long after the species was described, and then incorrectly labelled, 

 as often happens in similar cases. However, as this matter must 

 remain uncertain, it seems best to adopt the decision of Coutiere. 



Synalpheus minus (Say) Coutiere. Small Snapping Shrimp. 



Alpheus minus Say (?), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., i, p. 245, 1818. 

 H. M-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., ii, p. 356, 1837, (not of Brooks and 

 Herrick, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. v, not plate I), 1892. Kingsley* 

 (pars) Synopsis Alpheus, p. 190, 1878; List of Caridea, p. 57, 1878 

 (pars) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., for 1879, p. 416; Carcinological 

 Notes, No. v, p. 114, 1883 (pars), (non Bate, Voy. Challenger, xiv, 

 p. 558, pi. C, fig. 2). 



Alpheus minor (substitute for minus) Rankin, Ann. Lye. N. Hist. N. Y., 

 vol. xi, p. 250 (pars), Bahamas; op. cit., vol. xi, p. 540 (pars), 

 Bermuda (non A. minor of earlier authors, nee Brooks and Herrick, 

 op. cit, 1892). 



Synalpheus minor Coutiere, Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 8, vol. ix, 1899, text- 

 figures 32, 98, 115, 165, 167, 181, 191, 200, 239, 247, 248, 249, 250, 326, 

 348, pi. v, fig. 4 (larvae). 



Synalpheus minus Coutiere, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 36, p. 43, figs. 25, 

 26; 1909. Hay and Shore, op. cit., p. 382, pi. 26, fig. 2, and text-cut 5 

 (after Coutiere). 



Alpheus saulcyi Guerin, in La Sagra's Hist. Cuba, second part, Zool., 

 vol. vii, Crust., p. xviii, pi. ii, fig. 8, 1857. 



PLATE XXI, FIGURE i (No. 1827). PLATE XXIII, FIGURE 3 (No. 1827). 

 PLATE XXXIII, FIGURES 4, 4a, $ ; 5, sa, $ (No. 1827). PLATE 

 XXXIV, FIGURES 2 2n (No. 1827). PLATE XXXVI, FIGURES i id, 

 2 (variety). PLATE XXXI, FIGURE 4 and PLATE XXV, FIGURE 3 (after 

 Guerin as A. saulcyi). PLATE XLVII, FIGURES i ic, typical after 

 Coutiere ; FIGURE 2, frontal parts of a Bermuda specimen, after 

 Coutiere, not typical. PLATE XLVIII, FIGURES 3 3c, after Coutiere. 



As restricted by Coutieref (1909), this species has the following 

 characters ; It belongs to the "Brevicarpus group." 



Say described his species as having the rostrum "spiniform" and 



* Kingsley, in his synonomy, erroneously included A. formosus Gibbes, 

 with this species, as well as several distinct species of Synalpheus. See 

 under A. forinosiis. 



. f Coutiere found two dry specimens, sent by Say to the British Museum, 

 and still preserved there (op. cit, 1909, p. 2), and on them based his 

 restriction, though they may not have been cotypes. They do not agree 

 very well with Say's description. He probably confused several species of 

 this genus after publishing his description. 



