12 DR. W. T. CALMAN ON A COLLECTION OF 



Brachyura, p. 1-'5U ; OitiiKum, Zool. Jalirb. Syst. vii. p. 4(i4 ; De Man, Zool. Jabrb. Syst. vii. 

 p. 524; Alcock, Jouru. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Ixvii. (2) j). 163 (1898). 



Three female specimens. 



Oi'tmann (I.e.) unites Daiui's F. iiionticulosus with this species, hut Alcock (7. c.) 

 retains it as distinct. The characters chosen liy Alcock as diagnostic do not seem qu^ite 

 consistent with the descriptions of former writers and do not enahle me to discriminate 

 hetwo(in the species in a series of eleven specimens from Samoa and Japan in our 

 Museum. The three specimens in Prof. Haddon's collection agree with the original 

 description of P. monticulosus in liaving the chelipeds " armed with very small pointed 

 tuhercles "; but as these tubercles beset the whole outer surface of the liand, the specimens 

 would by Alcock's definition be referred to P. ungulatiis. As regards the sculpture of 

 the carapace, I can observe no constant difference between these and specimens from 

 Samoa, in which the chelipeds are distinctly of Alcock's mouticnlosus-ij])e. 



Locality. " Torres Straits." 



Phymodius sculptits (A. Milne-Edwards). 



Chloi-odius sculptus, A. Milne-Edwards, N. Arch. Mus. Paris, ix. 1873, p. 217, pi. viii. fig. 4. 



Phijinodius sculptus, Alcock, Jonrn. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, ixvii. (2) p. 164 (1898). 



Two male specimens, the larger measuring lO'ii mm. in length by 16-5 mm. in breadth. 

 They agree very closely with the figures and descriptions quoted above. 

 Locality. " Torres Straits." 

 Distribution. Hed Sea to Samoa. 



Chlouodopsis melanodactylus, a. Milne-Edwards. 



Chlorodopsis mdanodactylus, A. Milue-Edwards, N. Arch. Mus. Paris, ix. p. 229, pi. viii. fig. 7 (1873). 



Two male specimens, agreeing well with Milne-Edwards's description and figures, save 

 that the hands, and especially the fingers, are rather longer and the tubercles on the 

 fingers are more numerous. The series of specimens in the British Museum shows some 

 variation in these respects, but in none are the hands so elongated as in our specimens. 



Localiti/. " Murray Island, reef." 



Distribution. New Caledonia. 



Chlorodopsis spinipes (Heller). 



FUodins .spinipes, Heller, SB. Ak. Wien, xliii. p. 340, pi. ii. fig. 22 (1861). 



Chlorodopsis spinipes, A. Milne-Edwards, N. Arch. Mus. Paris, ix. p. 230, pi. viii. fig. 6 (1873); 



De Mau, Arch. Naturg. liii. (1) p. 282 (1887) ; Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Ixvii. (2) p. 169 



(1898). 



A male and a female specimen are in the collection. De Man has given a redescrip- 

 tiou of the antero-lateral teeth, finding the descriptions of Heller and Milne-Edwards 

 obscure. Heller's account, however, is quite api^licable at least to the larger of the 

 two specimens before me. He mentions (1) two teeth at the outer end of the upper 

 and lower margins of the orbit respectively, enclosing between them a deep notch, the 

 external orlntal hiatus ; (2) the three spiniform teeth oP the antero-latsral margin ; 



