1803. Cancer arlificiosa, llcr.bst, Krabben und Krebse, vol. 3, pt. 



3. P- 54, pl- 58. fig. 7- 

 1837- Droinia artiRciosa, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. 



2, p. 176, foot-note to account of D. fallax, Lamarck. 

 1858. CoiicJioccctcs artiticiosiis, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Philad., p. 



240 {ySy 

 1882. Dromia coiicliifcra, Haswell, Catal, Austral. Crust., p. 141, 



pi. ^. fi^-. 4- (and Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S- Wales, vol- 6, p- 



757)- 

 1887- C oiuiioicctcs coiichifera, A- O. Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 



London, vol- 20, pp. 108, iii. 

 1S99. Conchoecetes artificiosus, Alcock, Journ. Asiat- Soc. Bengal, 



vol- 68, p. 151. 

 1901- Conchoecetes arfificiosiis, Alcock, Catal- Indian Decap. 



Crust., Brachyura primgenia, p. 41, pi. 3, fig- 16- 

 The short close pubescence which covers this species is said 

 by Haswell to be green. In formalin it is brown, wath perhaps a 

 greenish shade in it. I do not find the dimensions given by any 

 author except Haswell, who reports it from Port Dienison and 

 Port iSIolle, and gives length f^ in. ; breadth, f in. The speci- 

 men from South Africa has the carapace in the medium line 2 1.25 

 mm. long, and its greatest breadth 22.25 mm., the breadth, there- 

 fore, being a little greater than the length, instead of the reverse 

 as in the Australian specimen- But it must be remembered that 

 the median line is measured from the central tooth of the front, 

 which is smaller and less advanced than its two companions. A 

 line from either of these to the hind margin gives the carapace of 

 the African specimen a length of 22-50. The dorsal length 

 in the median line, including the three protruded segments of the 

 pleon, is 30 m m. 



In forwarding the specimen from Cape Town, Dr. Gilchrist 

 informed me that the animal had been tied into its valve when 

 procured, in order to show how the shell is held, otherwise these 

 creatures, when brought on deck, speedily leave their covert- 

 The fourth pair of legs are, in fact, still grasping the shell valve 

 in a defiant manner, though they appear to have shaken off the 

 rest of the animal as a useless incumbrance, and by this detach- 

 ment facility of examination was considerably increased. 



Locality: — Amatikulu' River N.W., distant 7^ miles fcoa.st 

 of Zululand), from 26 fathoms. 



FaM. : HOMOLIDAE- 



1888. Ilomlidae^ Henderson, Challenger Anomura, Reports, 



vol. 27, p. 18. 

 1892. Ihniolidae, Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb-. vol. 6, p. 540. 



