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Sesarma dentifrons, Milne Edwards, A., Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. 



Nat. Paris, 1869, t. V, p. 31.— de Man, J. G., loc. cit., Bd. II, 



p. 651 ; Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Anst., 1896, Bd. XIII, p. 110, 



pi. 3, figs. 6 and 7. 

 Sesarma gardineri, BORRADAILE, L. A., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1900, p. 593, pi. 42, fig. 8. 

 Sesarma (Sesarma) gardineri, NOBILI, G., Ann. Mus. Nat. Hun- 



garici, 1905, t. Ill, p. 497. 

 Sarmatium faxoni, Rathbun, M. J., Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. for 



1903 (1906), vol. XXIII, pt. Ill, p. 841, pi. 7. 

 Sesarma {Sesarma) rotundatnm, RATHBUN, M. J., Mem. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., vol. XXXV, 1907, p. 33. 



Family: GECARCINIDAE 



Genus: CARDISOMA Latreille 



Cardisoma hirtipes Dana 



Plates 97 and 98 



Type : Prof. Dana's type, a male specimen, was collected in 

 the Fiji Islands and deposited in the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences. 



Distribution: This species, which is terrestrial and in the 

 breeding season and larval stages littoral in the Indo-Pacific, has 

 been recorded from the following places : South Seas, Madagas- 

 car (Alcock) ; New Caledonia (Milne Edwards) ; Nicobar Is- 

 lands, Andaman Islands (Alcock) ; Mauritius, South Sea (Ort- 

 mann) ; New Zealand (Filhol) ; Sydney, New South Wales (Hess) ; 

 Fiji Islands (Dana) ; Funafuti, Ellice Islands (Whitelegge) ; 

 Amboina (Nobili) ; Amboina, Ternate, Morotai and Edam Island 

 (de Man) ; Tahiti (Heller) ; and Kusai Island, Caroline Islands 

 (Boone). 



Material examined: One male, taken on Kusai Island, Caro- 

 line Islands, January 2, 1929. 



Colour: Dr. Alcock states that in life the carapace of this 

 species is dark violet and the chelipeds are bright cinnabar red. 

 The single specimen brought home by the "Ara" retains this col- 

 our pattern, though somewhat faded. 



