1880.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 191 



Grapsvs strigillatus White, in Gray's Zoological Miscellany, p. 78 



(1843). 

 Grapsus variegatus Edwards et Lucas, in d'Orbigny's Voyage, p. 27 



(1849). 

 Grapsus planifrons Dana, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1851, 



p. 249. U. S. Expl. Exped. Crust., p. 638, PL XXII, f. 3 (1852). 

 Leptograpsus variegatus Edw., Ann. Sci. Nat., Ill, xx, p. 171 (1853). 

 Leptogiapsus hertheloti, xerreauxi, ansoni et gai/i Edw., 1. c, p. 172 



(1853). 



Carapax nearl}' flat, transversely plicate. Protogastric region 

 concave, with squamose tubercles, protogastric lobes but little 

 prominent. Front slightl}^ depressed, its margin crenulate and 

 nearly straight. Orbits with a narrow, deep, external fissure. 

 Meros of chelipeds with the anterior border expanded, dentate ; 

 the other angles rounded, the posterior surface rugose. Carpus 

 tuberculate and with a short spine on the internal surface. Hand 

 tuberculate above, externall}'' smooth. In the 3'oung there is an 

 elevated line along the outside of the palm. Ambulatory feet 

 with stiff setae. 



Pernambuco / (Dr. Wilson); Chili/ (Wilkes' Expedition) ; Austra- 

 lia / (E. Wilson); JVeic So. Wales! (Capt. Putnam, Peabody 

 Academy) ; Isle Guam (Quoy and Gaimard) ; Canaries (Edw.); 

 Norfolk I. (Miers) ; Shanghai (Heller). 



Genus GEAPSOPES Heller, 1865. 



Carapax depressed, sides arcuate and dentate in front, behind 

 straight. Front less than half the width of the carapax, strongly 

 deflexed. Orbits externally open. Internal sub-orbital lobe 

 small, antennae entering the orbit. Meros of external maxilliped 

 longer than broad. Male abdomen five-jointed. 



G. notatus Heller. 



Grapsodes notatus Heller, Novara Crust., p. 58, PI. V, f. 2 (1865). 



Nieobars (Heller). 



Genus CYETOGRAPSUS Dana, 1851.1 



■ Carapax broader than long, front narrow, excavate, sides arcu- 

 ate, with three teeth behind the orbital angle. External maxilli- 

 peds widely gaping, without a piliferous ridge. Epistome very 



1 For some reason, Prof. Smith in his paper on Brazilian Crustacea 

 (Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. ii, 

 pp. 1-42, 1869), and in his notes on Ocypodoidea (1. c, p. 154), refers 

 several times to this genus, and always as Cryptograpsus. 



