312 Annals of the South African Museum. 



1907. N. 0., Kathbun, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. xlix., p. 89 footnote, 

 correction of N. ocellatus used by Stimpson, who states 

 that the species was " dredged on a sandy bottom, in 

 12 fathoms, in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope." 



Tribe CATOMETOPA 



1900. Catometopa, Alcoek, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. Ixix., pt. 2, 

 p. 279. 

 Alcoek divides this branch into nine families, which, with some 

 slight alterations in the form of the names, may conveniently be 

 accepted for the present catalogue. They are the Goneplacidae, 

 Grapsidae, Gecarcinidae, Ocypodida), Pinnotheridae, Myctiridae, 

 Hymenosomatidae, Palicidae, and Ptenoplacidae. 



Family GONEPLACID^. 



1900. GonoplacidcB, Alcoek, J. A. S. B., vol. Ixix., pp. 282, 283, 286, 



292, 297. 

 1902. GoneplacidcB, Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 2, p. 15. 

 1905. Carcinoplacida, Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 3, p. 34. 



Alcoek divides this family into five sub-families, named Pseudo- 

 rhombilinae, Gonoplacinae, Prionoplacinge, Rhizopinae, Hexapodinae, 

 the first corresponding with the family Carcinoplacidae, so named by 

 Stimpson in 1858, and by Ortmann in 1894, Zool. Jahrb., vol. vii., 

 p. 685. 



Gen. GONEPLAX, Leach. 



1814. Goneplax, Leach, Edinb. Encycl., vol. vii., p. 430. 

 1902. G., Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 2, p. 15. 



■'- Goneplax angulata (Pennant). 



1777. Cancer angulatus, Pennant, British Zoology, vol. iv., p. 7, pi. 5, 



tig. 10. 

 1902. Goneplax angulata, Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 2, p. 15. 



No. 25, sent by Dr. Gilchrist, from trawling 11 miles off 

 Cape St. Blaize. 

 1904. G. a., Doflein, Valdivia Brachyura, p. 117, Francis Bay ; 

 Algoa Bay, from 40 cm. depth ; Agulhas Bank, from 

 117 m. 



