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2. Sarmatium crassum Dana. 
1851. Sarmatium crassum Dana. Proc. Ac. Nat. Se. Philadelphia, 1851, 
p- 251 — Upolu (Samoa). 
1852. Sarmatium crassum Dana. U. 8. Expl. Exp., Crust., p. 358, pl. 23 
f. 1 — same locality. 
1869. Sesarma germani A. Milne-Edwards. Nouy. Arch. Mus. Paris, t. 5, 
Bull. p. 28 — Poeloe Condore (South China). 
1887. Sesarma germani de Man. Zool. Jahrb. Syst., Bd. 2 p. 651 — no 
new locality. 
1887. Sarmatium crassum de Man. Zool. Jahrb. Syst., Bd. 2 p. 660 — 
no new locality. 
1891. Sesarma germani de Man. Notes Leyden Museum, y. 13 p. 51 — 
Pacific, description of type-specimen ') of Milne-Edwards. 
1899. Sarmatium crassum Nobili. Ann. mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova, (2) 
t. 20 p. 505 — Siboga (Sumatra). 
1900. Sarmatium crassum Alcock. Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, v. 69 prt. 2 
p- 426 — Nicobars. 
Specimens in the Museum: 
IgOF, -Pacitic: 
This small species is characterized by its smooth carapace, by the 
palm of the cheliped being not tuberculate at the outer surface and es- 
pecially by the 6—7 transverse parallel crests near the upper border of 
the palm, in the case of the <. The upper border of the movable finger 
of the © bears four short spines, but there are none in the Q. 
3. Sarmatium curvatum H. Milne-Edwards. 
1837. Sesarma curvata H. Milne-Edwards. Hist. nat. Crust., t. 2 p. 75 
— Senegal. — 
1851. Sesarma violacea Herklots. Add. faun. care. Afr. oce., p. 10, pl. 1 
f. 9 — Boutry and Saccondé (Guinea). 
1853. Metagrapsus curvatus H. Milne-Edwards. Ann. Se. nat., (3) t. 20 
p- 189 — Senegal. 
1855. .Metagrapsus curvatus H. Milne-Edwards. Arch. Mus. Paris, t. 7 
p- 160, pl. 10 f. 3 — same locality. 
1880. Sesarma violacea de Man. Notes Leyden Museum, y. 2 p. 31 — 
same locality as given by Herklots. 
1892. Sarmatium violacewm Thallwitz. Abhandl. Mus. Dresden, Bd. 3 
n°. 3 1890—91, p. 40 — Ogowé (West Africa). 
1) This specimen is here recognized to be identical with Sarmatium crassum. 
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