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Ciienohita clypeata (Herbst). 



Gancer ch/peatus, Herbst, Naturg. Krabben u. Krebse, t. ii. p. 22, taf. xxiii. fig. 2, 1790. 

 Pagurus clypeatus, Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. Syst., p. 413, 1798. 

 Cenohita clypeata, LatreiUe, Fam. Nat. du Ec'gne Anini., p. 277, 1826. 



„ „ Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Crust., t. ii. p. 239, 1837. 



„ ,, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped., vol. xiii., Crust., parti, p. 473, pi. xxx. fig. 4, 1852. 



,, „ Heller, Reise der Novara, Crust., p. 82, 1865. 



Ccetiobita clypeata, Latreille, R^gne Anim. de Cuvier, ed. 2e, t. iv. p. 77, 1829. 



„ „ Miers, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. v. p. 371, 1880. 



,, clypeatus, Hilgeiidorf, in Van der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Afrika, Crust., p. 98, taf. vi. 



figs. 3c, 4a, 1869. 



Habitat. — ^Wild Island, Admiralty Islands. A large male specimen, in a shell of 

 Dolium perdix, Linn. 



This species is extensively distributed over the Indo-Pacific region, ranging from the 

 east coast of Africa to the islands of the Pacific. 



Ccenohita 1'ugosa, H. Milne-Edwards. 



Cenohita rugosa, !Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Crust., t. ii. p. 241, 1837. 

 „ „ Krauss, Siidafrik. Crust., p. 58, 1843. 



De Haan, Crust. Japon., p. 212, 1850. 

 ,, ,, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped., vol. xiii.. Crust., part i. p. 471, pi, xxx. fig. 1, 1852. 



,, ,, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbilad., p. 83, 1858. 



,, „ Heller, Sitzungsb. Akad. Wien, p. 254, pi. xliv. fig. 1, 1802; Reise der 



Novara, Crust., p. 82, 1865. 

 ,, ,, HasweU, Catal. Austral. Crust., p. 160, 1882. 



Cxnohita clypeata, Owen, Crust. "Blossom," p. 85, pi. xxv. fig. 3, 1839. 



Gmnohita rugosus, Hilgendorf, in Van der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Afrika, Crust., p. 99, taf. vi. 

 figs. 2, 3a, 4&, 1869. 

 „ rugosa, Targioni Tozzetti, C'rcstac. " Magenta," p. 232, pi. xiii. fig. 6, 1877. 

 ,, „ Miers, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol ii. p. 410, 1878 ; Phil. 



Trans. Roy. Soc, vol. clxviii. p. 492, 1879. 

 „ „ Eicbters, Decapoda in Mcibius, Beitnige zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius 



und der Seycliellen, p. 160, pi. xvii. figs. 14-17, 1880.' 



Habitat. — The collection contains a large series of this common and almost ubiquitous 

 ludo-Pacific species from the following localities : — 



Tracy Island, Nares Harbour, Admiralty Islands. In shells of Cerithium ( Vertagus) 

 martiniammi, Pfeiffer. 



Wild Island, Admiralty Islands, shore. In shells of Trochus (Chrysostoma) 

 paradoxus, Born. 



Kandavu, Fiji Islands, July 1874, and August 1874 (from the shore). 



Api, New Hebrides, shore. In the shell of Natica albumen, Linn. 



Tahiti, near the reefs, September 28, 1875. In the shells of a species of J/eZctm'a 

 (a fresh-water Mollusc). 



Wokan Dobbo, Arrou Islands, shore. 



