150 Rathbun — Revision oj Noinenclature of the Brachyura. 



xxiii, 1815 * For LejUopodia Leach, 1815, not 1814, Sienorynchus 

 may l:)e used. (See page 158.) 



Clorodius WHS a manuscript name of Leach, first published, but 

 not adopted,t by Desmarest, 1828, with the name of the type, 

 ' Cancer dentatas Fabr.,' corrected in 1825 to ' Cancer 11-dentatas 

 Fabr.' The first citation was an undoubted typographical error, 

 as there is no such species as C. dentatus Fabricius. The genus 

 was briefly defined by Desmarest as having fingers with spoon- 

 shaped tips, a character which he includes in his diagnosis of 

 Cancer 11-dentatus, but which unfortunately that species does not 

 possess, a circumstance which, it seems to me, does not invali- 

 date the genus. Clorodius aj^pears with its original signification 

 in de Haan's ' Fauna Japonica,' 1833. In 1830, Riippell added to 

 the genus a species, C. niger (Forska3l, 1775), having little in com- 

 mon with the type. In 1834, Milne Edwards recharacterized the 



* As the plates of Leach's ' JMalacostrara Podophthahiia Britanniai' are 

 not dated and were not issued in numerical order, it is impossible to de- 

 termine the sequence of publication in a bound coi>y of the volume. The 

 following table, showing the plates and the date of each number, was 

 kindly furnished me by Mr. Stebl^ing, who obtained them from Mr. Ber- 

 nard Quaritcli, the publisher of the concluding parts : 



Number. Plates. Date. 



1 8, 14, 22 Jan. 1, 1815. 



II 4, 15, 40 Mar. 1, " 



III 17, 28 A, 28 B May 1, " 



IV 19,29,41 July 1, " 



V 23, :J0 Sept.l, " 



VI 1, 2, 26 Nov. 1, " 



VII 24,38 Jan. 1, 181(5. 



Vlll 3, 12, 13 Mar. 1, " 



IX 42, 7, 43 I\Iay 1, " 



X 6, 31, 32 July 1, " 



XI 9, 11, 33 Sept. 1, " 



XII 21A, 21B, 5 Nov. 1, " 



XIII 18, 20 Jan. 1, 1817. 



XIV 16,25,44 Apr. 1, " 



XV 22 B, 37 A, 37 B 'July 1, " 



XVI 22 C, 38, 39 Dec. 1, " 



XVII 9 B, 10 Mar. 1, 1820. 



XVIII I )9A, 24A,27, 34| ^^^. 



XIX j \35, 37C, 45 



t I believe that if an author defines and pu])lishes a name it becomes 

 available over a later name whether he adopts it or not. 



