Boone, Crustacea, Cruise of "Alva," 1931 191 



Family: OCYPODIDAE. 



Subfamily : Ocypodinae. 



Genus: OCYPODE Bosc. 

 Ocypode cordimana Desmarest. 



Plates 99 and 100. 



Type: The type was collected in lie de France, (Mauritius), and 

 is deposited in the Paris Museum, 



Distribution: Red Sea, (Nobili; Heller, Kossman) ; seas of Asia, 

 Japan, (H. M. Edwards) ; Liu Kiu Islands, Hong Kong, (Balss) ; Foo 

 Chow, Chin Bey, China, (Gee) ; Foo Chow, (Kellogg) ; Indian Seas, 

 Ceylon, (Miers) ; Colombo, Ceylon, (Doflein) ; Minikoi, (Borradaile) ; 

 Mahe, (Nobili) ; Krusadai Island, Gulf of Manaar, (Gravely) ; Tuti- 

 corin, Ceylon and Madras ; this is a terrestrial crab and lives at some dis- 

 tance from the sea, (Henderson) ; Ceylon, Madras coast, Laccadives, 

 Mergui, Tavoy, Andamans, Nicobars, (Alcock) ; Sullivan Island, Mergui 

 Archipelago; Amboina, (Zehntner) ; Trengganu, Kilantan, Malay Pe- 

 ninsula, (Lanchester) ; Atjeh, Sumatra ; Bezoeki Island ; Amoy ; Island 

 of Xulla-Bessy, Noordwachter Island, Java, (de Man) ; Koo Keang San, 

 Borneo, (Miers) ; Kaiser Wilh elm's Land, New Guinea, (Ortmann) ; 

 Simbang, New Guinea, (Nobili) ; New Hebrides; coast of Australia, 

 (Miers) ; tropical Australia, shores, (Haswell) ; New Zealand, (Miers) ; 

 Botany Bay, (Whitelegge) ; Sandgate, Queensland, (Rathbun) ; Sand- 

 wich Islands, Tahiti, (Kingsley) ; Fiji Islands, Ovalu and Totoya, 

 (Miers) ; Society Islands, (Boone) ; Gilbert Islands, Paumotus, La- 

 drones, Tonga Islands, (Rathbun) ; (Whitelegge) ; Sandwich Islands, 

 (Dana); South Seas; Mauritius, (Ortmann); Mauritius, Rodriguez 

 Island, Bird Island, interior of island, African Island, Providence 

 Island, lie des Roches, (Miers); Mauritius; Reunion, (Hoffman); 

 New Caledonia, (A. M. Edwards) ; Seychelles: Praslin, Salomon, atoll, 

 Chagos, (Borradaile) ; Mozambique, Zanzibar, (Hilgendorf ) ; Mom- 

 basi, Gazi, British East Africa, (Bouvier) ; sandy coast. Natal, (Steb- 

 bing) ; lle-de-France, (H. M. Edwards). 



Material examined : One male and one female, on the reef at Mul- 

 ler's Reef, Bora Bora Island, Society Islands, collected by the '^Alva." 



Technical description: Carapace deep, box-like, rectangular; 

 length in the median line seven-eighths of the maximum width, which 

 is from tip to tip of the anterolateral angles. Frontal margin narrow, 

 tongue-like process, rounded distally and greatly deflexed. The orbits 



