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nation of its convex distal border. As the species shows 

 itself variable even in the two halves of the same specimen, 

 the ditferences here noted do not seem to demand a distinctive 

 name. 



Family CALLIANASSID^. 



1888. CalUanassidce, Bate, Challenger Macrm-a, Eeports, vol. xxiv., 



p. 27. 

 1893. C, Stebbing, History of Crustacea, p. 183. 



1901. C, x\lcock, Catal. Indian Deep-sea Macrm-a, p. 197. 

 1903. C, Borradaile, Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, vol. xii., p. 541. 

 190(i. C, Eathbun, Bull. U.S. Fish Coram, for 1903, pt. 3, p. 892. 



Gen. CALLICHIRUS, Stimpson. 

 18G0. Caliichirus, Stimpson, Proc. Chicago Acad. Sciences, vol. i., 



p. 47. 

 1874. C, Stimpson, Annals of Lyceum of New York, vol. x., p. 122. 

 1903. C, Borradaile, Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, vol. xii., p. 546. 



Borradaile regards this as a subgenus of Calliauassa, 

 assigning to it nineteen species. 



* Callichirus kraussi (Stebbing). 

 1900. Callianassa kraussi, Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 1, p. 39, 

 pis. 2, 3. 

 No. 41, specimens sent by Dr. Gilchrist, taken a little below 

 high-water mark in Gordon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope. It 

 has been sent me also from Gordon's Bay by C. F. Kies, Esq. 

 1903. Callichirus k., Borradaile, Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, vol. xii., 

 p. 547. 



Gen. CALLIACTITES, Borradaile. 

 1903. Calliactitcs, Borradaile, x\nn. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, vol. xii., 

 p. 545. 

 This also is regarded by Borradaile as a subgenus of Callia- 

 nassa, and he assigns to it six species. 



■■'- Calliactites rotundicaudatus (Stebbing). 



1902. Callianassa rotundicaudata, Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 2 



p. 41, pi. 8. 

 No. 87 was obtained by Dr. Gilchrist from St. Francis Bay 



