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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISII COMMISSION. 
Table 30 — Continued. 
Measurements in inches. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
No. 5. 
No. 6. 
No. 7. 
6 
24 
7* 
5 i 
28 
64 
5| 
24 
44 
3J 
2J 
94 
48 
3i 
34 
28 
12J 
34 
84 
78 
14 
41 
114 
4f 
11 
64 
14 
38 
28 
84 
4 
28 
3 
4 
14 
9 
i 
8 
1 
22 
8 
14 
24 
38 
2ft 
24 
28 
Pereiopods — Continued 
Length of dactyl 
Greatest breadth of dactyl 
Greatest girth of dactyl.'' 
Length of carpus (on inner margin, not including 
proximal spine) 
Greatest breadth of carpus 
Greatest girth of carpus 
Length of meros (outer border) 
Greatest breadth of meros 
Small forceps— 
Length of propodus (from tip to spine near prox- 
imal end) 
Breadth of propodus 
Girth of propodus 
Length of dactyl 
Greatest breadth of dactyl 
Greatest girth of dactyl 
Length of carpus (on inner margin, not including 
proximal spine) 
Greatest breadth of carpus 
Greatest girth of carpus 
Length of meros (outer border) 
Greatest breadth of meros 
Second and fifth pereiopods : 
Length of propodus, second pereiopod 
Breadth at articulation of dactyl 
Length of dactyl 
Breadth of dactyl (at articulation) 
Greatest length of carpus 
Breadth of carpus 
Length of dactyl, fifth pereiopod 
Breadth of dactyl - 
Length of propodus 
Breadth of propodus (distal extremity) 
Breadth of propodus (proximal extremity) 
Length of carpus 
Breadth of carpus '. 
Pleopods : 
Length of first pleopod 
Length of distal segment 
Greatest breadth of distal segment 
Length of stalk of second pleopod 
Breadth of stalk of second pleopod 
Length of exopodite 
Breadth of exopodite 
Length of exopodite, sixth pleopod (from angle 
between spines of protopodite) 
Greatest breadth of exopodite at hing6 
Length of endopodite of sixth pleopod 
Greatest breadth of endopodite of sixth pleopod. . 
6 
24 
21 
8ft 
5* 
24 
14 
4* 
12 
n 
11 
4* 
2 A 
8 ft 
« 
3ft 
Lb 
HI 
u 
X 
213 
k 
21 
is 
x 
2 
ift 
S 
1 1 A 
2i 
84 
13 £ 
US 
78 
14 
38 
24 
51 
24 
44 
3 
84 
44 
24 
128 
44 
64 
H 
4 
3| 
28 
8 
44 
24 
IS 
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The detailed measurements of this auimal are given in table 30, No. 1, where they 
may be compared with those of the small lobster, seen on plate 2, and with those of 
the large specimens which I have recorded above. 
The large Bootbbay lobster, which has already been referred to (p. 16), is 
reported to have weighed as much as 40 pounds. I was told that it tipped a scale 
which weighed up to 25 pounds, and would have weighed somewhat more. Its meas- 
urement, however (table 30, No. 2), proves it to have weighed less than the Belfast 
specimen, and a comparison of its length and the dimensions of its claws with the 
large European lobster (No. 1 a, table 29) show that it could have exceeded this in 
weight very slightly, if at all. Its true living weight was probably between 20 and 22 
pounds. The shell of this lobster was cleaned by placing it in an ant-hill, and it is now 
m a bad state of preservation. The claws are furrowed, pitted, and scarred, and the 
carapace is scratched, as is apt to be the case with large old-shell lobsters. 
In the museum of the Peabody Academy of Science at Salem, Massachusetts, there 
is a perfect specimen of a lobster (No. 3, table 30), said to have been taken at Salem 
