General Catalogue of South African Crustacea. 301 



of Eschara foliacea, L., and is very sluggish. It fixes itself 

 with the biuncinate fingers so firmly in the pores of the polyp 

 that it is only rarely obtained undamaged." 

 1907. P. martcnsi, Nobili, Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 9, Zool., vol. iv., 



p. 268. 



Nobili remarks that his specimens from the Bed Sea agree per- 

 fectly with Krauss's species, although that species has nothing to do 

 with Menippe, as that genus is now conceived and as already recog- 

 nised by de Man. The reference to de Man is not specified, but 

 may probably be to that author's discussion of Ncnippe, de Haan, 

 and Myomenippe, Hilgendorf, in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xxii., No. 136, 

 pp. 36-43, 1887. 



GEN. EPIXANTHCJS, Heller. 



1861. Epixanthus, Heller, Sitzungsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. xliii., 



p. 323. 

 1898. E., Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. Ixvii., p. 184. 



EPIXANTHUS FRONTALIS (Milne-Edwards). 



1834. Ozim frontalis, M.-Edw., Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. i., p. 406. 

 1843. 0. /., Krauss, Sudafrik. Crust., p. 31. 



" Bather rare, under stones at Natal Point ; very 

 sluggish." 



1865. Epixanthus f., Heller, Novara Crustacea, p. 20. 

 1898. E.f., Alcock, J. A. S. B., vol. Ixvii., p. 185. 

 1907. E. /., Bathbun, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. xlix., p. 60 foot- 

 note. 



GEN. PILUMNUS, Leach. 



1815. Pilumnus, Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xi., p. 321. 



1898. P., Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. Ixvii., pp. 75, 190. 



PILUMNUS XANTHOIDES, Krauss. 



1843. Pilumnus xanlJioides, Krauss, Sudafrik. Crust., p. 32, pi. 1, 



fig. 6. 



" Very frequent in the sinuosities of Eschara foliacea, L., 

 which forms little banks at Natal Point." 



Miers, Challenger Brachyura, p. 147, 1886, observes : " The 

 Pilumnus xanthoides, Krauss, from Natal, which is included 

 by Dr. Kossmann in this genus, differs from the typical 

 Pilumni in the form of the antero-lateral marginal teeth." 



