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Genus: CALCINUS Dana 

 Calcinus herbstii de Man 



Plate 2 



Type : Dr. de Man's type series is from Edam Island, Noord- 

 wachter Island, and Halmahera Islands, and is deposited in the 

 Leyden Museum. 



Distribution: This species has a very wide distribution, 

 being known from Japan, southward to the Natal coast, South 

 Africa, and eastward to the Hawaiian Islands and Paumotu Archi- 

 pelago. It is recorded from : Zanzibar, Mozambique (Hilgendorf ) ; 

 Mozambique (Miers) ; Madagascar (Lenz and Richters) ; Tulear, 

 Madagascar (Lenz) ; Natal coast, S. Africa (Krauss) ; Mauritius 

 (Alcock) ; Grand Port, Mauritius (Bouvier) ; Rodriguez Island 

 (Miers) ; Diego Garcia (Balss) ; Male Atoll, Maldive Islands (Ort- 

 mann) ; Goidu, Maldives, Minikoi Island (Borradaile) ; Subheli- 

 par, Laccadives (Henderson, Alcock) ; Great Sober Island, Trin- 

 comalee, Ceylon (Henderson) ; Trincomalee (Muller) ; Andaman 

 Islands; reefs of Great Cocos Island; Palk Strait (Alcock) ; Nico- 

 bar Islands (Heller) ; Bonin Islands, Loo Choo Islands, Ousima, 

 Japan (Stimpson) ; Amami Oshima, Japan (Ortmann) ; Straits 

 of Balabac, North of Borneo (Dana) ; Edam Island, Noordwach- 

 ter Island, Borneo, Halmahera Islands, Brava (de Man) ; Pleas- 

 ant Island, Nauru Island, Gilbert Islands (Whitelegge) ; South 

 Seas (H. M. Edwards, Alcock) ; Funafuti Atoll, Ellice Islands 

 (Whitelegge, Borradaile) ; Rotuma (Borradaile) ; Apia, Samoa 

 (Boone) ; Tutuilla, Samoa, Wake Island (Dana) ; Fanning 

 Islands, "one of the most common species in the Hawaiian Islands" 

 (Edmondson) ; Hawaiian Islands (Streets, Randall, Dana) ; on 

 the reefs, Tahiti, Society Islands (Henderson, Hilgendorf, Heller, 

 Nobili) ; Paumotu Archipelago: Raraka, Vincennes, Carlshoff 



