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Color : Blackish green with broAvn and white markings and spots, 

 (Stebbing). Olive brown, (several writers). 



Distribution: Bed Sea, (Forskal, A. M. Edwards, Cano, Hess); 

 Assab, Red Sea, (Nobili) ; seas of Asia and of Oceania, (H. M. 

 Edwards); Indian Ocean, (Herbst; Fabricius) ; Ceylon, (Heller; 

 Henderson) ; Madras, (Heller) ; abundant in the Indian backwaters, 

 (Henderson) ; Bombay, Pondichery, (Hess) ; Krusadai Island, 

 (Gravely and Raj) ; Pondichery, Mahe, Malabar coast, (Nobili) ; Port 

 Canning, estuary of Matla River, Lower Bengal, (de Man) ; fossil in 

 the upper Tertiary beds at Hathrab, Bhavanagar (Kathiawar), India, 

 (Das Gupta) ; Nicobar Islands, (Heller) ; in brackish waters about 

 Canton, China, Loo Choo Islands, (Stimpson) ; Hong Kong, China, 

 (Miers) ; Amoy, Hankow and Shanghai, (Gee; Kellogg); Shanghai, 

 Hankow, ]\Ianchurian and southeast Siberian coast, (Balss) ; Shang- 

 hai, (Dofiein) ; Kochi, Japan, (Ortmann) ; Japan, (de Man) ; Singa- 

 pore, (Dana; Cano; Nobili); abundant in the mangroves and on 

 the coast at Lem Ngob, Gulf of Siam, (Rathbun) ; Tale Sap, a lake on 

 the east coast of the Malay Peninsula; abundant; young found 

 in ditches of brackish water and in mangrove swamps, (Kemp) ; 

 Luzon, Philippines; Bali and West Borneo, (Miers) ; Merauke, New 

 Guinea, (Roux) ; Java, Enkhuizen Island, Batavia Bay, Edam 

 Island, Macassar Bay, Celebes, (de Man) ; Flores, Celebes, (Thall- 

 witz) ; Amboina, (Nobili) ; Java; Macassar, (Hess) ; Fee Jee Islands, 

 Vanua, Levu and Bau; Tahiti, Papeete, Society Islands, Dukhun, 

 (Miers) ; Salanga Island, Upolu, Samoa, (Ortmann) ; Port Dennison, 

 Port Jackson, etc., Australia, (Miers) ; subfossil, New Channel, mouth 

 of Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, Australia ; wharf at Derby, Fitzroy 

 River, N. W. Australia, (Etheridge and McCulloch). Habits of the 

 giant mangrove swimming crab of an Australian beach, (Whitely and 

 Boardman) ; Auckland, New Zealand, (Heller) ; Auckland Bay, (de 

 Man) ; New Zealand, (A. M. Edwards) ; New Holland, (Hess) ; 

 Mayotte, Reunion Isle, (Hoffman); Mauritius, (Ortmann; Miers); 

 common on the coasts of New Caledonia and frequents the marshes of 

 Noumea, (A. M. Edwards); New Caledonia, (Miers; de Man); 

 Mozambique, (Hilgendorf) ; Mozambique, between tidemarks, (Miers) ; 

 Port Natal, South Africa, at the mouth of Swartkopf's River; Duk- 

 hun, (Miers). Macleay, 1849, states: "It has only been known as yet, 

 (in South Africa), to occur in deep holes, which it makes in the mud 

 islands, near the mouth of the Swartkopfs River, islands that are only 

 visible at low water." Stebbing states: "At home at the mouths of 



