318 Annals of tlic South African Museum. 



prettily lined with white dots, suggestive of the name G. 

 albolineatus, employed by Lamarck. 

 1908. G. s., Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 4, p. 13. 

 Durban. 



GEN. CYCLOGRAPSITS, Milne-Edwards. 



1837. Cyclograpsus, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. ii., p. 77. 



1838. Gnathochasmus, M c Leay, Annulosa of S. Africa, p. 65. 



* CYCLOGRAPSUS PUNCTATUS, Milne-Edwards. 



1837. Cyclograpsus punctatns, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., 



vol. ii., p. 78. 



1838. Gnathochasmus barbatus, MLeay, Annulosa of S. Africa, 



p. 65, pi. 3. 

 1843. Sesarma barbata, Krauss, Siidafrik. Crust., p. 45, pi. 3, fig. 3, 



a, b, c. 



Krauss distinguishes two varieties: "The one, figured by 

 Macleay, lives in holes in the mud at the mouth of the 

 Brakke JRiver, in the district of Uitenhage, and is greenish 

 yellow with dark red flecks on the carapace, and dark red 

 points on the chelipeds and ambulatory feet : the other occurs 

 under stones at Natal Point, and has on the carapace very 

 delicate and closely aggregated dark red points, but the cheli- 

 peds and feet of uniform colour." 

 1847. Gnathochasmus barbatus, White, List Crust. Brit. Mus., 



p. 40. 



" Female, Cape of Good Hope. Presented by Captain 

 Carrnichael." 

 1907. Cyclograpsus punctatus, Stimpson, Smithson. Misc. Coll., 



vol. xlix., p. 132. 



Stimpson says : " Living specimens are of a purplish brown 

 color with black punctae. It lives among rocks and stones on 

 sandy shores, in the third sub-region of the littoral zone. 

 Found at Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope ; also in the 

 harbor of Hongkong, China." 



It may be remarked that Stimpson's identification of M c Leay's 

 species with C. punctatus, M.-Edw., is not disallowed by his editor, 

 Miss Eathbun, and further that neither in 1858 nor in 1907 does 

 Stimpson mention Sesarma barbata, Krauss. This may be inten- 

 tional, as Stimpson's own account of the living colouration does not 

 agree with that of either variety described by Krauss. 



