352 Annals of the South African Museum. 



GEN. CLIBANAEIUS, Dana. 



1852. Clibanarius, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp. vol. xiii., pp. 435, 461. 

 1893. C., A. Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 



Harvard, vol. xiv., No. 3, p. 156. 

 1905. C., Alcock, Catal. Indian Decap. Crust., pfc. 2, fasc. 1, pp. 40, 



158. 



CLIBANARIUS VULGARIS, Dana. 



1791. Cancer clibanarius, Herbst, Krabben und Krebse, vol. ii., pt. 1, 



p. 20, pi. 23, fig. 1. 



1837. Pagurus c., Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. ii., p. 227. 

 1843. P. c., Krauss, Slidafrik. Crust., p. 56. 



Krauss says : " This species is the largest among the hermit 

 crabs occurring in South Africa, and is found in Natal Bay on 

 the muddy banks overgrown with Zostera marina L. It 

 inhabits especially the shells of Tritonium succinctum LAM., 

 Kanella granifera LAM., and Buccinum luteostoma CHEMN. 

 Colour greenish brown with bright brown hairs and with 

 bright blue longitudinal stripes on the feet. I have never 

 found examples over 3 inches long." 



1852. Clibanarius vulgaris, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. xiii., p. 462. 

 1905. C. clibanarius, Alcock, Catal. Indian Decap. Crust., pt. 2, 



fasc. 1, p. 43, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



1908. C. vulgaris, Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 4, p. 21. 

 Specimen from the Durban Museum. 



CLIBANARIUS VIRESCENS (Krauss). 



1843. Pagurus virescens, Krauss, Slidafrik. Crust., p. 56, pi. 4, fig. 3. 



" This species is very common on the rocky coast of Natal, 



where it inhabits all the shells that offer from the size of 



Eanella granifera LAM. to a Cerithium scarcely 4 lines long. 



The largest examples have a length of one inch from the 



frontal margin to the apex of the pleon." 



1852. Clibanarius v. (?), Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. xiii., p. 466, 



pi. 29, figs. 6a, 6b. 



Dana's figures are not easy to reconcile with those of 

 Krauss, and Dana's statement that in Krauss's figure "the 

 carpus is not more than half as long as broad " is 

 untenable. 



1905. C. v., Alcock, Catal. Indian Decap. Crust., pt. 2, fasc. 1, 

 p. 159. 



