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century, which was certainly preoccupied by J. C. Fabricius’ Cancer 
phalangium (Stenorhynchus phalangium Milne- Edwards), and which 
was apparently rejected by Otho Fabricius himself. 
Hyas aranetlS Leach ex Linne. 
Massachusetts Bay, about ten miles southeast from Salem !, 35 
fathoms, mud and clay nodules, 1877 ; Stellwagen’s Bank !, 22 to 
34 fathoms, sand and rocks, common, 1873. Casco Bay!, 1873, at 
the following localities: Haddock Ground off Whaleboat Island, 14 
fathoms, gravel and broken shells; Broad Sound, 16 to 22 fathoms, 
stones and shells; northwest of Eagle Island, 13 fathoms, spongy 
bottom. Bay of Fundy !, 1868, 1872. Le Have Bank!, latitude 42° 
44' north, longitude 64° 36' west, 60 fathoms, sand and gravel, 1872. 
Off Chebucto Head !, Nova Scotia, 20 fathoms, mud and fine sand, 
1872. In and near Halifax Harbor!, N. S., 1877: 16 to 21 fathoms, 
very fine sand and red algae ; 18 fathoms, mud and fine sand, Sept. 
15, very large specimens, some carrying eggs ; 16 to 25 fathoms, 
rocks and nullipora, and stones, gravel, etc. ; also in Bedford Basin, 
35 fathoms, soft mud, a small specimen only. Newfoundland Banks !, 
from stomachs of cod-fish (collection Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.). Gulf of 
St. Lawrence !, “ rare” (Whiteaves). Labrador ! (A. S. Packard, Jr.). 
Greenland (O. Fabricius, Kroyer et al.); Disco Island, 5 to 20 
fathoms (Valorous Cruise, Norman). Sea of Ochotsk (Brandt, Mid- 
dendorff’s Sibirische Reise, Krebse, p. 79, 1851). Iceland (G. O. Sars). 
Spitzbergen (Goes, CEfversight af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akad. Forhand- 
lingar, Stockholm, 1863, p. 161 (1)). Coast of Norway! (G. O. Sars), 
British Islands! (Norman), and on the continent of Europe, as far 
south as the coast of Belgium (Van Beneden), and according to Milne- 
Edwards (Hist. nat. des Crust., i, p. 312, 1834) to that of France. 
Upon our coast this species is much less abundant than the next. 
I have never seen specimens from south of Cape Cod. 
Hyas coarctatus Leach. 
Coast of New Jersey (Leidy) and of Long Island (Say). Block 
Island Sound !, 8 to 15 fathoms, stones, gravel and sand ; and Coxe’s 
Ledge !, east-southeast of Block Island, 21 fathoms, rocky bottom, 
1874. Stellwagen’s Bank !, 22 to 44 fathoms, rocky and sandy, — abun- 
dant ; Jeffrey’s Ledge !, 24 fathoms, gravel and stones, — abundant; 
and Massachusetts Bay!, 29 and 33 fathoms, gravel and stones, 1873. 
Massachusetts Bay, off Salem !, 1877 : 22 fathoms, gravelly ; 48 
fathoms, soft mud, August 13, — some females carrying eggs, Gulf of 
