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Eriphia sehana Rathbun, Kept. U. S. Comm. Fish, for 1903, Bull. 23, 

 pt. 3, p. 865, 1906. — Rathbun, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. 35, p. 

 57, 1907 ; Trans. Soc. London, Zool. ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 232, 1911.— 

 Edmondson, Bull. B. P. Bishop Mus. vol. 5, p. 19, 1923. 



Genus: DOMECIA Eydoux and Souleyet. 

 Domecia hispida Eydoux and Souleyet. 



Plate 85. 



Type: The type was collected during the world cruise of the 

 "Bonite" and is deposited in the Paris Museum. 



Distribution : Circumtropic in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic 

 Oceans. Red Sea: Senafir, Djeddah, Abu Somer-Hamfela, Koseir, 

 Haleib, Jambo-Habban, Brother's Island, St. John's Island, Dahab, 

 (Balss) ; Indian Archipelago, Noordwaehter Island, Java (de Man) ; 

 off Little Andaman Island, 10 fms., Great Coco Island, (Alcock) ; 

 Maldives: This crab lives in branches of living coral, in the reefs at 

 Goidu, Goifurfehendu Atoll and in Minikoi, (Borradaile) ; Liu Kiu 

 Islands, (Balss) ; Hao Island, (Nobili) ; Mangareva Island, (Lucas) ; 

 Tahiti, Society Islands, (Dana) ; Marquesas Islands, (Boone) ; Ha- 

 waiian Islands, (Eydoux and Souleyet; de Man) ; Hawaii: Honolulu, 

 vicinity of Kauai, 18 to 41 fms.. Penguin Bank, 27 to 29 fms., vicinity 

 Laysan, 10 to 19 fms., (Rathbun) ; Palmyra Island, (Edmondson) ; 

 rare at New Caledonia, (A. M. Edwards) ; Seychelles: Diego Garcia, 

 Cargados Carajos, Amirante, Coetivy, (Rathbun) ; in the Atlantic 

 from : Antilles, Florida Reefs, Cruz de la Padre, Cuba, Eastern Dry 

 Docks, Guadeloupe, (A. M. Edwards; Desbonne and Schramm) ; Key 

 West, Florida, (Kingsley). 



Material examined: One ovigerous female, taken on coral at 

 Anaho Bay, Nuka Hiva Island, Marquesas Islands, Pacific Ocean, 

 August 10, 1931, by the "Alva." 



Color : The color of the carapace varies, being variously brownish, 

 yellow clouded with brown, or deep maroon brown. 



Technical description : Carapace very broad oval, one and two- 

 fifths times as wide as long, with the interorbital margin wide, slightly 

 more than one-half of the maximum width of the carapace, armed 

 with three pairs of teeth, each of which is multispinose. The inner- 

 most or submedian pair of teeth are the smallest and are separated 

 from each other by a U-shaped sinus, each tooth has its distal margin 

 cut into four sharp, conical spines, one of which is shorter and more 



