From the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, July 17th, 1876. 



Kemarks on the Crustacea of tlie Pacific Coast of North 

 America, including' a Catalogue of the Species in the 

 Musevun of the California Academy of Sciences, San 

 Francisco. 



BY W. N. LOCKINGTON. 



The collection of Crustacea belonging to this institution is tolerably com- 

 plete as regards the species inhabiting the Pacific Coast from Cape St. Lucas 

 northwards, and also includes many forms from Oceania and the Indo-Pacific, 

 but is deficient in Atlantic, African and Australian forms. 



The Pacific Island specimens are, for the most part, the gift of Andrew- 

 Garrett; while those from this coast, to which these remarks are confined, 

 have been presented chiefly by W. J. Fisher, Hy. Hemphill, Hy. Edwards 

 and W. G. W. Harford. 



MAIOIDEA. 



The want of a good scientific library on this coast is severely felt by any 

 one who attempts to describe a new sjjecies, and I have never felt it more 

 acutely than when endeavoring to marshal in their proper places the numer- 

 ous novelties belonging to this group of Cnistacea that have been brought 

 from the Gulf of California by Mr. W. J. Fisher. 



