8 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



THORACOSTRACA. DECAPODA. 



PILUMNIDAE. 



Under stones, toward high-water mark. Local. 



Me. — Sheepscot River. 



Mass, — Massachusetts Bay. 



Conn. — East side of New Haven Harbor. 



Long Island Sound. 



PORTUNIDAE. 



19. Caecinides MAENAS (Linne). 



G-reen crab ; Joe rocker. 



Cancer maenas Linne, Syst, nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 627, 

 "in Oceano Europ^o, Asiatico." Fauna Svecica, 1761, p. 



492. 



Carcmiis maenas, De Kay, Nat. hist. New York, pt. 6, Crust., 



1844, p. 8, pi. 5, figs. 5, 6. 



Under stones toward high- water mark to a few fathoms, and 

 in tidal pools. 



Me. — Harpswell ; New Meadows River, near Harpswell ; 

 Eagle Harbor, Casco Bay ; Kittery. 



Mass. — Ipswich; Nahant; Lynn; Cohasset; Manomet Point ; 

 and from Cape Cod southward. 



R, I. 



Conn, 



20. PoRTUNus SAYi (Gibbes). 

 Gulf-weed crab. 



Lupa sayi Gibbes, Proc. Amer. assoc, adv. sci., 1850, vol. 8, 

 p. 178 [14]. "coast of South-Carolina." 



Neptunus sayi A. Milne Edwards, Arch. mus. hist, nat., Paris, 

 1861, vol. 10, p. 317, pi. 29, fig. 2. 



Surface, on gulf weed. 

 Mass. — Vineyard Sound. 



