250 OCYPODE KUHLII. 



the male abdomen are comparatively broader , less elongate 

 than in that species. The external shape of the hands 

 very much agrees with that of the hands of Oeyp. cera- 

 tophthalma Pallas , but the tubercles on the upper margin 

 of the larger hand and on the upper margin of the mobile 

 finger are less spiniform, more depressed. The penultimate 

 joints of the second and third ambulatory legs are provi- 

 ded with a patch of hairs on the under surface and the 

 dactylopodites are rather broad and clothed with hairs on 

 the margins. 



As regards the geographical range of our species , it oc- 

 curs positively on the shores of Zanzibar, Java, Xulla- 

 Bessy , Sanghir , New-Caledonia and Amoy , so that it is 

 found in the whole Indian Ocean and Malayan Archi- 

 pelago. — 



The Oeyp, cordimana of de Haan was founded upon a 

 voung specimen of Oci/p. ceratophthalma Pallas , as I can 

 positively affirm : young specimens of the latter species , 

 collected at Amoy, having the carapace 19 millim. broad, 

 not only wholly agree with the description and the figu- 

 res of de Haan's cordimana , but even with the typical spe- 

 cimens of the author of the Fauna Japonica^ found back 

 by me in the Leyden Museum. 



Oeyp. convexa Stimpson (Proc. Philad. 1858 , p. 100) 

 from Japan , will be allied to our species , when not iden- 

 tical, for its insufficient description is nearly wholly appli- 

 cable to the Oeyp. cordimana Latr. 



The description of Oeyp. cordimana Latr. in Milne Ed- 

 wards, Hist. Nat. des Crustac. pag. 45 without any doubt 

 is wrong, and it will be difficult to explain this fault; 

 Alph. Milne Edwards however has rectified the description 

 of this species, when describing his specimens from New 

 Caledonia. 



Ocypode kuJilii de Haan. 



Ocypode kuhlii de Haan , Fauna Japonica , Crustacea, p. 58. 



Notes from the ILieyden M.UHeuizi, Vol. III. 



