156 Rathbun Revision of Nomenclature of the Brachyura. 



xxiii, 1815.* For Leptopodia Leach, 1815, not 1814, Stenorynchus 

 may be used. (See page 158.) 



Clorodius w&s a manuscript name of Leach, first published, but 

 not adopted,f by Desmarest, 1823, with the name of the type, 

 4 Cancer dentatus Fabr./ corrected in 1825 to ' Cancer 11-dentatas 

 Fabr.' The first citation was an undoubted typographical error, 

 as there is no such species as C. dentatus Fabricius. The genus 

 was briefly defined by Desmarest as having fingers with spoon- 

 shaped tips, a character which he includes in his diagnosis of 

 Cancer 11-dentatus, but which unfortunately that species does not 

 possess, a circumstance which, it seems to me, does not invali 

 date the genus. Clorodius appears with its original signification 

 in de Haan's ' Fauna Japonica,' 1833. In 1830. Riippell added to 

 the genus a species, C. niger (Forsksel, 1775), having little in com 

 mon with the type. In 1834, Milne Edwards recharacterized the 



* As the plates of Leach's ' Malacostraea Podophthalma Britannia' are 

 not dated and were not issued in numerical order, it is impossible to de 

 termine the sequence of publication in a bound copy of the volume. The 

 following table, showing the plates and the date of each number, was 

 kindly furnished me by Mr. Stebbing, who obtained them from Mr. Ber 

 nard Quaritch, the publisher of the concluding parts : 



Number. Plates. Date. 



1 8, 14, 22 Jan. 1, 1815. 



II 4, 15, 40 Mar. 1, " 



III 17, 28 A, 28 B May 



IV 19, 29, 41 July 



V 23, 30 Sept. 



VI 1,2, 26 Nov. 



VII 24,36 Jan. ,1816. 



VIII 3, 12, 13 Mar. 



IX 42, 7, 43. May 



X 6, 31, 32 July 



XI 9, 11, 33 ,. Sept. 1, " 



XII 21 A, 21 B, 5 Nov. 1, " 



XIII 18, 20 Jan. 1, 1817. 



XIV 16, 25, 44 Apr. 1, " 



XV 22 B, 37 A, 37 B July 1, " 



XVI 22 C, 38, 39 Dec. 1, " 



XVII 9 B, 10 Mar. 1, 1820. 



XVIII) f9A, 24 A, 27, 34} 1 r 



XIX I 135,370,45 } " 



1 1 believe that if an author defines and publishes a name it becomes 

 available over a later name whether he adopts it or not. 



