4 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



THORACOSTRACA. DECAPODA. 



GRAPSIDAE. 



8. Flaxes mixutus (Linne). 



Gulf-weed crab. 



Cancer mi/n.itus Linn^, Syst. nat., e<;l. 10, 175S, vol. 1, \). 625. 

 ''IX Pelagi Fuco xataxte."' 



Planes clypeatus Bowdich, Excursions in Madeira and Porto 

 Santo, 1825, p. 15. pi. 12. figs. 2a. 2b. 



Pelagic, common in gulf stream. 



Mass. — "Woods Hole, \^ ; "Wareham, 1. 



Pi. I. — .Sakonnet Point, under rocks. 1? bearing eggs (W. 



Xye. Jr.j. 



9. .SESAEilA EETICTLATUM TSav;. 



Ocypode reticidatus Say, Joiirn. acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1S17, 

 vol. 1, p. 73, pi. 4. fig. 6. •'•'mubdt salt marshes." 



Ocypode {Sesarma) reticulo.tv.s Say. ojj. cit.. ISl'*^. p. 442. 



On salt marshes in hiirrows. 



Mass. — Warehara: Acushnet River, near Xew Bedford. 



Long Island Sound. 



PIXNUTHERIDAE. 



10. PiXXOTHERES OSTEEUM Say. 



Oyster crab. 



Pinnotheres ostreum Say. Journ. acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1S17. 

 vol. 1, p. 67, pL 4, fig. 5 C 9 ;. '•'Ixhabits the co^rMOX' otsteb." 



Pinnotheres ostreum DeKay, Xat. Hist. XewTork, pt. 6, Crust., 

 1844, p. 12, pi. 7, fig. 16 ( 9 ) ; Smith, Kept. U. S. cornmr. of 



fish & fisheries, pt. 1. for 1'^71-1S72 aS73). p. 546 [252], not 



pi. 1, fig. 2 (^;. 



