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THE AFRICAN SWIMMINCx CRABS OF THE GENUS 



CALLINEGTES?^ 



BY MARY J. RATH BUN. 



This paper is supplementary to the one on 'The Genus OiUi- 

 necies,'' ^ since the publication of which tlie writer has examined 

 the types of a number of species of doubtful position and has 

 been able to correct the s3monymy. ;|; It becomes necessary to 

 change the name of two species, larvatus to margiiiatii,s, tumidus 

 to exasperaUis, and advisable to consider the subsj^tecies, tumidus 

 gladiator, a species. One new species is added, (J. latimanus. 



Callinectes marginatus (A. Mihie Edwards). 



Neptnnuf: margimtfiif! A. JNIilne Edwards, Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, X, 



318, pi. XXX, fig. 2, 1861. Ga]>oii. Types examined (.'!,/'»'. $ ). 

 Calluu'cles larvatus OrdwAy, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., VII, 573, 18().']. Key 



West, Tortngas, Bahamas, Haiti. 

 Callinectes larmlas A. Milne Edwards, Crnst. Reg. Mex., 225, 1879 (variety 



of ('. <liaca)ttlii(s). 

 CaUinecles afriraiias A. Mihie Edwards, (i/>. cit., 229, 1879 (variety of C. dia- 



caiiflius). Cape Verde Islands. Types examine<l. 

 CaUlnertes lareatus, var. africa.)Ms f Benedict, Proc. U. S. Nat. j\Ins., XVI, 



1893, 537. 



Dlslritintinii. — African coast: Cape Verde Islands (U. S. Nat. Mas., No. 

 14880; Paris Mus.); Liberia (Paris Mas.) ; Beyah River, Elmina, Ashan- 

 tee (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 14878) ; Gaboon (Paris Mns. ) ; St. Paul de Loando 

 (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 14877). American coast: Florida Keys to Bahia, 

 Brazil. 



* Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



fProc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIfl, 1895, 349-375, pis. xii-xxviii, 1896. 



J C. nitidas A. Milne Edwards, 1879, is a synonym of C. arcnatiis Ord- 

 way, 1863. 



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