1919-] ^- Kemp : Notes on Crustacea Decapoda. 327 



References prior to 1900 are given by Alcock, who records the 

 species from the Andamans and the Coromandel coast. Addi- 

 tional specimens are from the following localities : — 



'•■yl^i Vasco da (iama Bay, Mor- S. Kemp ; Aug., Sept.. 'l'liiri\. 

 niugao Bay, Portuguese iyi6. 



India 



-»f^5 Bay i\. \V. of Nazareth Ft., i/o. Six. 



Mormugao Bay, Portu- 

 guese India. 



-j%~ Tuticorin, S. India. J. Hornell ; h\\>., n^iS. I'wenty-four. 



~fo^ Pamban baikwatcr, Kainnad S. Kemp ; l*"fb , IQI,^. Sc\en. 

 dist., S. India. 



-yj^- Knnur backwater, nr. Madras. N. Ann.indaifc ; Oct.. One (ovig,). 



1913- 

 m,^ Outer channel of thilk.i Lake, Chilka Survey, March, One. 



Orissa. IQI-I-- 



^To~ Maungma-gan, TaxoN-, Bur- |. Coggin Browti. Five. 



ma. 

 ~io^ Pawa\- I Pa we ) I., Mergui ' Inxestigator.' I^'cIj., I'Our. 



Archipelago. 1914- 



»f^' Port Blair, .Xnd.imans. K. P. .Mullins ; June. Seven. 



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In the first of these localities the species was exceedingly 

 abundant on sandy ground with a small admixture of mud. The 

 colonies occupied extensive tracts near low-water mark ; the bur- 

 rows were very closely packed together and the whole surface of the 

 sand was covered with pellets to a depth of nearly an inch. It is 

 perhaps due to this overcrowding that the specimens are decidedly 

 smaller than usual, none exceeding 6'5 mm. in length of carapace. 

 With the species, but in isolated burrows near high-water mark, 

 was found Scopimera proxima and Mr. Hornell found the two forms 

 associated in the same way at Tuticorin 



Dotilla myciiroides is frequently found in places where the 

 water is brackish. Dr. Annandale found an ovigerous female in 

 such a situation at Ennur and, at the time specimens were taken, 

 the specific gravity of the water in Vasco da Gama Bay was i'Oi65 

 (corrected). 



The species has been recorded from Mahe (Milne-Edwards),' 

 Rameswaram I., Tuticorin and Ennur (Henderson), Singapore 

 (Walker, Lanchester), Java (Brit. Mus., fide Henderson), Caspar 

 Straits (Stimpson) and Billiton I. and Mindanao (Aurivillius). 

 Henderson gives " Seychelles (Miers)," but I have not succeeded in 

 tracing the record. 



Dotilla fencstrata, Hilgendorf. 



184;,. Doto siilcatiis, Kraus.:, Sndafnk. -Crust., p. 39 (Stuttgart). 



i86y. Dotilla fenestnita. Hilgendorf, in von der Decken's Reiseii Ost.- 



Afi-ika III, p 85, pi. iii, iigs. 5, ^Ihc. 

 i87(). Dotilla feiiestiuita, Hilgendorf, Mouatsb. K. Preiiss. Akad. Wiss., 



1878, p. 806. 

 1884. Dotilla feuestrata, Miers, Zool. H.M.S. 'Alert; p. 543. 

 1893. Dotilla fenestvata, \\x\-\\W\\\xi. '^'ov. Act. Reg. Sac. Sci. Upsala, ser. 



Ill, p. 12, pi. i, tigs. 14, 15. 



' FresuinabK' the Mahe on the Malabar coast. 



