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GHANA 



Accra, no date, Ic? , 1 9, F. R. Irvine. 



NIGERIA 



91.4.1.63/69, Lagos, Bight of Benin, 4 ^ , 3 2 (2 

 juv), A. Moloney, (Types). 1948.4.30.1/2, Lekki 

 Lagoon, 16.2.1947, 2 S , Trewavas. 



ANGOLA 



1912.4.2.4/5, Chiloango River, Cabinda, July 

 1911, 2 S, Ansorge. 



MNHNP. 5 lots, 7 specimens. 



GAMBIA 



Basse, Cote de Troire, 1907, 1 S , Bouet. 



SENEGAL 



No number, 15,1 2 juv, date and col. unknown. 

 Bignona, May 1946, 2 5, P. L. De Keyser and A. 

 Villiers. 



GUINEA 



Conakry, Guinee, 1 2, Inst. Fr. d'Afrique Noire. 



CONGO 



1892-94, 1 S juv, Dybowski. 



RMNH. 6 lots, 20 specimens. 



LIBERIA 



Grand Cape Mount, 1881, 1 c^ , J. Biittikofer and 

 J. A. Sala. 1864, Fishermans Lake, [35 mi NW 

 Monrovia], among stones, Jan. 1881, juv 2 c?, 2 2, J. 

 Biittikofer and J. A. Sala. 



GHANA 



376, St. George d'Elmina, 1 S, H. S. Pel. 



NIGERIA 



20614, Lagos harbor, 23 May 1964, 1 2 (ov), 

 Pillsbury. 15533, Niger Delta, May-Aug. 1960, 3 

 3, 3 2, H. J. G. Beets. 



CONGO 



No number, 1880, (juv) 2 <? , 5 2, T. Kamerman. 



UNC-IMS. 7 lots, 41 specimens, from A. Cros- 

 nier. 



TOGO 



2733, Lagune D'Anecho, 5 (^, 3 2, A. Stauch. 

 2734, Cotes du Togo, 06°06'30"N, 01°37'30"E, 16 

 Oct. 1963, 1 2 (ov), A. Crosnier. 



CAMEROON 



2735, Cotes du Cameroun, 03°34'N, 09°35'E, 23 

 Aug. 1963, 1 2, A. Crosnier. 



CONGO 



2736, Lagune de Zambi [03°58'S, 11°17'E], 13 

 May, 1964, 2 2, A. Stauch. 2737, Lagune de 

 Conkouati [03°58'S, iri9'E], 14 May 1964, 1 2, 17 

 juv, A. Stauch. 2738, Plage de Pointe-Noire, no 

 date, 2 <S , 2 2. A. Crosnier. 2739, Plage de Pointe- 

 Noire, July 1963, 4 <J, 4 2, A. Crosnier. 



Supplementary literature records. — Baie de 

 Saint-Jean [19°27'N, 16°22'W], Mauritania; St. 

 Louis, Yof, Sobane [= Sobene?], Bignona, Sedhiou 

 + 3 nearby localities, Ziguinchor, Senegal; Tam- 

 ara. He Poulet, Guinea; Abidjan, Lagune Ebrie, 

 Baie de Cocody, Ivory Coast; near Densu, Gold 

 Coast [= Ghana] (Monod, 1956); Bissau, porto de 

 Biombo, Ilheu de Ancora, Portuguese Guinea 

 (Vilela, 1949); Sierra Leone River (Longhurst, 

 1958); Gold Coast (Irvine, 1947); Fernando Poo 

 (Crosnier, 1964); Principe I. (Forest and Guinot, 

 1966); Senaga, Cameroon (Odhner, 1923); Songolo 

 [= Songololo], Loya, Longo, Djeno, Congo (Rossig- 

 nol, 1957). 



CALLINECTES SAPIDUS RATHBUN 

 Blue Crab 



Figures 1, 16, 17, 19d, 21, 23b-c, 26 



Portunus hastatus.- Bosc, 1802, p. 212-214,219.- 

 1830, p. 234. 



Lupa hastata.- Say, 1817, p. 65 (not L. hastata 

 Desmarest, 1832 = Cancer hastatus 

 Linnaeus, 1767). 



Portunus diacantha Latreille, 1825, p. 190 (vari- 

 ety) (type localities: North America, Antil- 

 les, Brazil, etc.; types not extant; restricted 

 to Philadelphia, Pa., by Holthuis, 1962, p. 

 232; name suppressed by International 

 Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, 

 Opinion 712 [1964, p. 336]). 



ILupea dicantha.- H. Milne Edwards, 1834, p. 451 

 (part). 



Lupa dicantha.- Gould, 1841, p. 324.- de Kay, 

 1844, p. 10, pi. 3, fig. 3.- Holmes, 1858, p. 9 

 (fossil). 



Callinectes diacanthus.- Stimpson, 1860, p. 220.- 

 Young, 1900, p. 186 (part). 



Callinectes hastatus .- Ordw ay , 1863, p. 568 [3].- A. 

 Milne Edwards, 1879, p. 224 (var. of C. 



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