384 A. E. Verrill — Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda. 



This interesting species is not uncommon at Bermuda, in suitable 

 localities. It lives in shallow bays, with whitish shell-sand bottoms. 

 We found it near and at Walsingham Bay on Castle Harbor ; Hun- 

 gry Bay ; the north side of Long Bird Island, at " The Reach," 

 etc. It can rarely be caught except by the use of nets. It was also 

 in the collections of J. M. Jones, G. Brown Goode, and the Field 

 Museum of Natural Histor}". 



The type localities were Florida and St. Thomas. 



It was taken off Cape Hatteras, in shallow water, by the U. S. 

 Steamer " Albatross." It ranges from North Carolina through the 

 W. Indies to Brazil. Off Florida Keys, 5-7 fathoms (Stimpson). 

 Bahia, Brazil (Smith). 



This species was dedicated to Albert Ordway, a classmate of the 

 author, while a student of Professor Louis Agassiz, 1858 to 1861.* 



* Mr. Ordway was, at that time, an enthusiastic student of Crustacea, and a 

 young man of much ability. His best known work on Crustacea, written at 

 that time, but published later, is that on the genus Callinectes (see Bibliog- 

 raphy), in which he first demonstrated the great systematic importance of the 

 form and structure of the male appendages in this family, and applied his 

 discovery to the correct elucidation of the numerous species of this group, to 

 which he also added six new species. 



During the winter and spring of i860 and 1861, the wi'iter spent several 

 months in Washington closely associated with Mr. Ordway and several other 

 young zoologists, among whom were Dr. Wm. Stimpson, E. D. Cope, Theodore 

 Gill, Elliott Coues, F. W. Putnam. We were engaged in working upon the 

 collections of the Smithsonian lustitiition, by the requests of the Secretary, 

 Prof. Joseph Henry, and Assistant Secretary, Prof. S. F. Baird. 



At that time the writer remembers seeing Dr. Stimpson, who was at first 

 skeptical, give Mr. Ordway a severe test, as to his ability to distinguish the 

 various forms of Callinectes by his new method. He put before him all the 

 specimens in the large Smithsonian collection with no labels except catalogue 

 numbers. Mr. Ordway very rapidly and correctly separated them, not only into 

 their species, but assigned each to its projier geographical area, greatly to the 

 surprise of Dr. Stimpson and others. 



At the time when we were in Washington, political and sectional excitement 

 was at fever heat, and the presentment of impending war was almost universal, 



