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Order DECAPODA. 



Suborder Reptantia. 



Tribe BRACHYURA. 



Subtribe Oxystomata. 



Family CALAPPIDAE. 



Subfamily Calappinae. 



Genus: CALAPPA Fabricius. 



Calappa hepatica (Linne). 



Plates 8, 9 and 10. 



Name: The Hawaiian native name of this species is **Papaki." 

 (Owen). 



Type: Linnaeus' type was collected in the Indies and was depos- 

 ited in the "Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, No. 448." 



Distribution: The Indies, (Linne) ; Indian Archipelago, (H. M. 

 Edwards) ; Pacific Ocean, (Herbst, Fabricius) ; South Seas, (Bosc) ; 

 Eastern Seas, (Haswell) ; Japan, (DeHaan) ; Nagasaki, (Pesta) ; 

 Takao, S. Formosa, Okinawa Island, Gasawara Island, Liu Kiu 

 Islands, (Balss) ; Loo Choo Islands and "Gaspar," (Stimpson) ; 

 China coast, (Miers) ; Ceylon, (Miers) ; Rameswaram, Gulf of Marta- 

 ban; Trincomali, Ceylon (Muller) ; Ceylon, Tuticorin, (Henderson); 

 Palau Islands, (Ortmann) ; Andamans, Nicobars, Maldives; Lacca- 

 dives; Persian Gulf, (Alcock) ; Funafuti and Rotuma, (Borradaile) ; 

 Hulule, Male Atoll; Minikoi, lagoon, (Borradaile) ; Krusadai Island, 

 Gulf of Manaar, (Gravely); Cocos-Keeling, Atoll; Murray Island, 

 Torres Strait, (Caiman) ; Borepata, Hula, Irupara, Kalo, Katau, 

 Amboina (Nobili) ; Kema, Makassar, Celebes, (Schenkel) ; Kuchang 

 and Samarinda, Borneo, (Nobili) ; Marutea, lagoon, S. Marutea, 

 Gatavake, Mangareva, Nobili) ; Tongatabu, Sooloo Sea, Fiji Archi- 

 pelago, (Dana); Amboina; Pulo Edam; Noordwaehter, Java (de 

 Man) ; "Siloga" station 193, Sanana-Bucht, Sula Bessi, 22 m. ; Sta. 

 225, Lucipara Islands, Riff; Sta. 258, Tual, Kei Islands, 22 m.; Sta. 

 261, Elat, Kei Islands, Riff, (Ihle) ; Loyalty Islands; Samoa, 

 (Haswell, Miers); Tahiti, Society Islands, (Heller; Rathbun) ; 

 Marquesas Islands, (Boone); Tongatabu, reefs; Amboina, 10 fms. ; 

 New Hebrides, (Miers): Northeast coast of Australia; Clairmont, 

 Australia; Trinity Bay, N. E. Australia; Bramble Key; West Hill 



