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  Etisodes 
  sciilptilis, 
  Heller, 
  Sitz. 
  Akad. 
  Wien, 
  Math.-nut. 
  Klasse, 
  xliii. 
  

  

  (i.) 
  p. 
  333 
  (1861) 
  ; 
  A. 
  3I.-Edivards, 
  Nouv. 
  Archiv. 
  Mus. 
  Hist. 
  Nat. 
  

  

  ix. 
  p. 
  230, 
  pi. 
  ix. 
  lig. 
  2 
  (1873). 
  

   Chlorodius 
  samoensis, 
  Miers, 
  Ann. 
  ^ 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  ser. 
  4, 
  xvi. 
  

  

  p. 
  341 
  (3875). 
  

  

  A 
  small 
  female 
  was 
  obtained 
  on 
  a 
  coral-reef 
  off 
  Clairmont 
  

   (No. 
  151). 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Haswell 
  records 
  it 
  from 
  Holborn 
  Island 
  (as 
  E. 
  frontalis). 
  

   In 
  the 
  British-Musenm 
  collection 
  are 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Gulf 
  of 
  

   Suez 
  (7^. 
  MacAndmv) 
  ; 
  Philippines 
  (Cuming) 
  ; 
  Samoa 
  Islands 
  (22ev. 
  

   8. 
  J. 
  Whitmee, 
  types 
  of 
  Chlorodius 
  samoensis) 
  ; 
  Sandwich 
  Islands 
  

   {W. 
  H. 
  Pease); 
  and 
  others 
  without 
  special 
  locality. 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  very 
  variable 
  species 
  the 
  front 
  is 
  usually 
  4-lobed 
  (without 
  

   including 
  the 
  inner 
  orbital 
  angle), 
  but 
  sometimes 
  the 
  submedian 
  

   incisions 
  are 
  so 
  shallow 
  that 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  are 
  scarcely 
  defined 
  ; 
  it 
  

   also 
  varies 
  much 
  in 
  the 
  distinctness 
  of 
  the 
  areolation 
  of 
  the 
  carapace 
  

   and 
  the 
  granulation 
  of 
  the 
  chelipedes. 
  I 
  have 
  little 
  doubt, 
  however, 
  

   that 
  all 
  the 
  forms 
  referred 
  to 
  in 
  the 
  synonj^mical 
  citations 
  given 
  

   above 
  are 
  varieties 
  of 
  one 
  widely 
  distributed 
  Indo-Pacific 
  species. 
  

  

  51. 
  Etisodes 
  anaglyptus 
  {M.-Ediv.). 
  

  

  An 
  adult 
  female 
  from 
  Clairmont, 
  obtained 
  on 
  a 
  coral-reef 
  (No. 
  

   151), 
  belongs 
  here. 
  

  

  This 
  specimen 
  certainly 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  species 
  as 
  do 
  two 
  

   specimens 
  in 
  the 
  British-Museum 
  collection 
  from 
  the 
  Philippine 
  

   Islands 
  [Cuminc/), 
  referred 
  by 
  AVhite 
  to 
  E.anagh/ptus 
  : 
  but 
  these 
  all 
  

   differ 
  from 
  Milne-Edwards's 
  figure 
  in 
  the 
  large 
  illustrated 
  edition 
  of 
  

   Cuvier* 
  in 
  having 
  the 
  frontal 
  lobes 
  divided 
  by 
  a 
  deeper 
  median 
  

   fissure, 
  and 
  these 
  lobes 
  are 
  themselves 
  not 
  merely 
  truncated 
  but 
  also 
  

   have 
  the 
  distal 
  ends 
  slightly 
  convex, 
  and 
  the 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  antero- 
  

   lateral 
  margins 
  are 
  somewhat 
  more 
  conical 
  and 
  acute 
  than 
  in 
  that 
  

   figure. 
  I 
  may 
  add 
  that 
  the 
  lobules 
  of 
  the 
  carapace 
  have 
  a 
  few 
  

   scattered 
  punctulations, 
  the 
  tuberculation 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  surface 
  of 
  

   the 
  hands 
  shows 
  a 
  disposition 
  to 
  arrangement 
  in 
  longitudinal 
  series, 
  

   and 
  the 
  black 
  coloration 
  of 
  the 
  fingers 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  extends 
  over 
  the 
  

   inner 
  and 
  outer 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  palms. 
  

  

  52. 
  Menippe 
  (Myomenippe) 
  legouilloui, 
  A. 
  M.-Edw. 
  

  

  Several 
  specimens 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  from 
  Port 
  Curtis, 
  obtained 
  

   either 
  on 
  the 
  beach 
  (Nos. 
  88, 
  96) 
  or 
  dredged 
  at 
  7-11 
  fms. 
  (No. 
  85). 
  

   Length 
  of 
  the 
  largest 
  specimen 
  about 
  1 
  inch 
  7 
  lines 
  (40 
  millim.), 
  

   greatest 
  breadth 
  about 
  2 
  in. 
  3 
  lines 
  (57 
  millim.). 
  In 
  the 
  smaller 
  

   specimens 
  the 
  distinctions 
  between 
  the 
  median 
  and 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  

   frontal 
  teeth 
  are 
  much 
  less 
  marked 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  full-sized 
  example. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  British-Museum 
  collection 
  there 
  are, 
  besides, 
  only 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  from 
  Swan 
  lliver, 
  and 
  another 
  from 
  the 
  Malaysian 
  seas, 
  

  

  * 
  ' 
  Regne 
  Animal,' 
  Crustac^s, 
  Atlas, 
  pi. 
  xi. 
  fig. 
  4. 
  

  

  