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Genus: ZOZIMUS Leach. 



Zozimus aeneixs (Linne). 

 Plates 50, 51, 52 and 53. 



Type : The type came from the Indies ; the present depository is not 

 known to the writer. 



Distribution: Red Sea, (Heller; Nobili, several stations) ; station 

 7, Sudanese Red Sea, (Laurie) ; Red Sea : Tor, Brother's Island, Mersa 

 Scheikh, Hanfala, Mersa Dhiba, (Balss) ; Red Sea, (Pesta) ; Gulf of 

 Akaba, (Ortmann) ; the Orient, (Seba) ; East Indies, (Linne) ; East 

 Indian Seas and Carolina coast (error) ; Andamans and Laccadives, 

 (Alcock) ; shore, Male, Minikoi Atolls, Rotuma, (Borradaile) ; Faka- 

 rina, (Nobili) ; Trincomali, Ceylon, (MuUer) ; Ceylon, Java, (Ort- 

 mann) ; Kandavri, Pulo Edam, Celebes, Flores, Timor, New Guinea, 

 (Miers) ; Seleo and Tami Island, New Guinea, (Nobili) ; Malay Archi- 

 pelago, (de Man) ; Singapore, (Cano) ; Mascarenes, Australia and 

 South Pacific, (Henderson) ; Woodlark Island, (Haswell) ; Funafuti 

 Atoll, Ellice Islands, (Whitelegge) ; Samoa and Paumotu Archipelago, 

 (Dana); Makemo, Paumotu Islands, (Rathbun) ; Tahiti; LooChoo 

 Islands, (Stimpson) ; LiuKiu Islands, (Balss); Hawaiian Islands: 

 Honolulu, reef; Waialua, Oahu; vicinity of Laysan Island, 10 to 14 

 fms., (Rathbun) ; New Caledonia, (de Man) ; Mauritius, (Ortmann) ; 

 Mauritius: Port Louis, Grand Port, (Bouvier) ; Mauritius, (Pesta) ; 

 Reunion Isle, (Ortmann); Seychelles, (Miers; Pesta; Rathbun); 

 Peros, Coin, Salomon, Egmont, reef, Coetivy, (Rathbun) ; Madagascar, 

 (Pesta) ; south pier, Durban, South Africa, (Stebbing) ; New Zea- 

 land, (Pesta). 



Color : Dr. Alcock states that this crab is "beautifully spotted and 

 ocellated with chocolate brown on a bluish grey ground. ' ' 



Material examined: One, claws extensively marked with black, 

 taken on coral reef at Anaho Bay, Nuka Hiva Island, Marquesas 

 Islands, South Pacific, Aug. 10, 1931. Four (3 females and 1 male), 

 Venus Point Reef, Tahiti, Society Islands, Aug. 15, 1931. One large 

 male, Venus Point Reef, Tahiti, Society Islands, Aug. 15, 1931. Two 

 males (large), one female, Poonarum Reef, Aug. 15, 1931. 



Technical description : Carapace three-fifths as wide as long, mod- 

 erately convex, the regions sharply outlined by deep grooves, and cut 

 into numerous lobules ; the posterior half of the carapace especially is 

 ornamented with conspicuous, smooth rounded tubercles, symmetri- 

 cally distributed. The anterolateral margin is crestlike, cut into four 



