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the outer side the chela appears spoon-shaped. Several solitary 

 setae border the laminae of the cutting edges. 



The telson of the present specimens have respectively six, nine 

 and sixteen distal marginal spines. Dr. de Man has reported speci- 

 mens having sixteen to eighteen telsonic spines and Dr. Kemp 

 had one with nine spines. 



References: Coralliocaris lamellirostris, Stimpson, W., Proc. 

 Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. XII, 1860, p. 38.— de Man, J. G., 

 Abhandl. Senck. Naturf., Bd. XXV, 1902, p. 842, pi. 26, 

 fig. 55a-f . 



Coralliocaris lucina, Nobili, G., Ann. Mus. Univ. Napoli (n. s.), 

 1. 1, no. 3, 1901, p. 5; Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., ser. 9, t. IV, 1906, 

 p. 57.— Balss, H., Denk. Math.-Naturw. Kl. K. Akad. Wien, 

 Bd. XCI, 1915, p. 26. — Borradaile, L. A., Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Zool., ser. 2. vol. XVII, 1917, p. 384, pi. 56, fig. 23.— Tatter- 

 all, W. F., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. XXXIV, 1921, p. 

 390.— Kemp, S., Rec. Indian Mus., vol. XXIV, 1922, p. 276, 

 text fig. 102. 



Coralliocaris superba var. japonica, Borradaile, op. cit., p. 384. 



Corailiocaris graminea (Dana) 



Plate 48 



Type : Dana's type came from the "Pacific, on the coral reef, 

 am.ong growing corals, at Rewa, Viti Lebu, Fiji Archipelago," and 

 is deposited in the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Distribution : This species, which usually lives in association 

 with Madrepore corals, is a widely distributed member of the 

 coral reef fauna. It is known from the Red Sea eastward in India, 

 Japan, Java, New Caledonia and the Fiji Islands; also on the 

 east African coast, southward to Mozambique. It has been re- 

 corded from the following places : Red Sea, ten localities (Balss) ; 

 Pamban, Gulf of Manaar, Port Blair, Andamans (Kemp) ; Hong 

 Kong (Stimpson) ; Kagoshima, Japan (Ortmann) ; Johnston 

 Island, Wake Island, Palmyra Island (Edmondson) ; Ternate, 

 Pulo Edam Island, Bay of Batavia (de Man) ; South Seas, New 

 Caledonia, Pulo Condore (Kemp) ; Christmas Island (Caiman) ; 

 Sandal Bay, Lifu, Loyalty Isles (Borradaile) ; Falcon Island, 

 Queensland (Boone) ; Coetivy (Borradaile) ; Seychelles (Kemp, 



