XVI. 
CHARACTERISTIC DEEP-SEA TYPES.— CRUSTACEA.! 
Ix a rapid survey of the “Blake ” collections for the sake of 
noting some of the more interesting discoveries, the large num- 
ber of very small and exceedingly long-legged spider-crabs 
(Maioidea) first attract attention. Species of this general char- 
acter, such as Anomalopus frontalis (Fig. 225) and Anisonotus 
Fig. 225. — Anomalopus frontalis. 2:35, (Alph. Milne-Edwards. ) 
curvirostris (Fig. 226), are found to be numerous, and many 
of them very abundant, at depths between 30 and 300 fathoms, 
in the West Indian region, and a few species extend northward 
to the south coast of New England. Pisolambrus nitidus 
similar depths. 
Among the Caneroidea (crabs and their allies), which are so 
1 Prof. Sidney I. Smith has kindly assisted me in preparing the account of the 
erustaceans. 
