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OcYPODE CURSOR (Linn.). 



1758. Cancer cursor, Linn., Systema Naturae, ed. 10, p. 625. 

 1804. Ocypode ippeus, Olivier, Voy. dans I'empire ottoman, vol. ii., 

 p. 234, pi. 30, fig. 1. 

 The reference is borrowed from Milne-Edwards, the date 

 from Doflein, who gives the page as 235, and, like Miers, gives 

 the name as Ocypoda. 

 1904. Ocypoda cursor, Doflein, Valdivia Brachyura, p. 127. 



A female specimen, from Tiger Peninsula, in Great Fish 

 Bay. Dr. Peringuey tells me that he reckons South Africa to 

 include Africa south of lat. 16° S. This will bring Dr. Doflein's 

 specimen within the limit, but the specimens included in this 

 Catalogue have not as a rule been taken nearly so far north 

 ward. 

 1907. Ocypode ippeus, Eathbun, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. xlix., 

 p. 108, footnote correction of Stimpson's " Ocypode cursor 

 (Belon) de Haan," which includes in the synonymy 

 Olivier's OcyjJode ippciis. 



Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas). 



1772. Cancer ceratophthalmus, Pallas, Spicilegia Zoologica, Fasciculus 



nonus, p. 83, pi. 5, figs. 7, 8. 

 1798. Ocypode ceratophtalma, Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. Syst., p. 347. 

 1838. Ceratophthalma cursor (Herbst), M'^Leay, Annulosa of S. 



Africa, p. 64. 

 1843. Ocypode ceratophthalma, Krauss, Siidafrik. Crust., p. 41. 



"On the sandy parts of the Natal coast; younger indi- 

 viduals I have also found on extensive sandy coasts of the 

 Colony." 



Ocypode cordimana, Desmarest. 



1825. Ocypode cordimana, Desmarest, Consid. g6n. Crust., p. 121, 

 1838. 0. c, M<=Leay, Annulosa of S. Africa, p. 64. 



M'^Leay remarks that " the Ocypode cordimana of Dehaan 

 appears to be a very different species." Krauss thinks that 

 it is " probably only a younger individual." But Ortmann in 

 1897 and Doflein in 1904 make de Haan's 0. cordimana a 

 synonym of 0. ceratophthalma. 

 1843. 0. c, Krauss, Siidafrik. Crust., p. 41. 

 On the sandy coast of Natal. 



