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  COLLECTIONS 
  FROM 
  MELANESIA. 
  

  

  71. 
  Thalamita 
  stimpsonii, 
  A. 
  M.-Edw. 
  

  

  A 
  male 
  and 
  female 
  are 
  in 
  Dr. 
  Coppinger's 
  first 
  collection 
  from 
  

   Port 
  Molle, 
  obtained, 
  one 
  on 
  the 
  beach 
  f 
  JN'o. 
  95), 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  on 
  

   the 
  coral-rccfd 
  in 
  that 
  harbour. 
  In 
  the 
  second 
  collection 
  is 
  a 
  female 
  

   from 
  Port 
  Darwin, 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  beach 
  (No. 
  176). 
  

  

  Specimens 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  British-Museum 
  collection 
  from 
  the 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  Australian 
  localities 
  : 
  — 
  Port 
  Curtis 
  {J. 
  Macr/illivray, 
  H.M.S. 
  

   * 
  Rattlesnake 
  ') 
  ; 
  Torres 
  Straits 
  (J. 
  B. 
  Juices) 
  ; 
  and 
  N. 
  Australian 
  

   coast 
  {Dr. 
  J. 
  R. 
  Elsey). 
  There 
  are 
  also 
  specimens 
  from 
  New 
  Guinea 
  

   and 
  Amboina 
  (Dr. 
  Bleeher's 
  collection), 
  and 
  Sunday 
  Island 
  (J. 
  B. 
  

   Juketa), 
  besides 
  others 
  without 
  special 
  indication 
  of 
  locality. 
  

  

  Eecorded 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Haswell 
  from 
  Port 
  Denison 
  &c. 
  

  

  This 
  may 
  perhaps 
  be 
  a 
  mere 
  variety 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  species 
  ; 
  but 
  

   I 
  do 
  not 
  venture 
  to 
  unite 
  the 
  two, 
  since 
  adult 
  examples 
  of 
  T. 
  stimp- 
  

   sonii 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  distinguished 
  from 
  adult 
  T. 
  crenata 
  not 
  merely 
  by 
  

   the 
  small 
  fourth 
  lateral 
  marginal 
  tooth, 
  but 
  also 
  by 
  the 
  more 
  trans- 
  

   verse 
  carapace 
  and 
  more 
  granulated 
  palms 
  of 
  the 
  chelipedes. 
  

  

  72. 
  Thalamita 
  crenata, 
  Eilppell. 
  

  

  An 
  adult 
  male 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  collection, 
  from 
  Port 
  Molle, 
  14 
  fms. 
  

   (No. 
  93). 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  also 
  in 
  the 
  British-Museum 
  collection 
  a 
  female 
  from 
  the 
  

   Percy 
  Islands, 
  off 
  the 
  Queensland 
  coast 
  (J". 
  3Iacr/iUivra;/, 
  H.M.S. 
  

   ' 
  Rattlesnake 
  ') 
  ; 
  a 
  male 
  from 
  Torres 
  Straits 
  (J. 
  B. 
  Jukes) 
  ; 
  also 
  

   from 
  the 
  Mauritius 
  (Ladtj 
  F. 
  Cole) 
  ; 
  Natal 
  (F. 
  M. 
  Rayner, 
  H.M.S. 
  

   'Herald'); 
  Timor 
  Laut 
  {H. 
  O.Forbes); 
  India, 
  Karachi 
  (Karachi 
  

   Museum); 
  Philippines 
  (Cuming); 
  the 
  Samoa 
  Islands 
  (Rev. 
  S. 
  J. 
  

   Whitmee) 
  ; 
  and 
  others 
  without 
  special 
  locality. 
  

  

  73. 
  Goniosoma 
  variegatuni. 
  

  

  Portunus 
  variegatus, 
  Fahricii(s, 
  FntomohgicB 
  Systematica 
  Supple- 
  

  

  mentnm, 
  p. 
  304 
  (1798) 
  ; 
  M.-Echvards, 
  Hist. 
  Nat. 
  ties 
  Crustaces, 
  i. 
  

  

  p. 
  465 
  (1834). 
  

   Cancer 
  callianassa, 
  Herhst, 
  Natnrqesch. 
  d. 
  Krabbe7i 
  u. 
  Krebse, 
  iii. 
  

  

  Heft 
  2, 
  p. 
  45, 
  pi. 
  liv. 
  fig. 
  7 
  (1801). 
  

   Cliarybdis 
  variegatus, 
  De 
  Haan, 
  Crust, 
  in 
  Siebold, 
  Fauna 
  Japonica, 
  

  

  pp." 
  10-42, 
  pi. 
  i. 
  fig. 
  2 
  (1835). 
  

   Charybdis 
  truucatus, 
  De 
  Haan, 
  t, 
  c. 
  p. 
  65, 
  pi. 
  xviii. 
  fig. 
  2 
  (1837), 
  nee 
  

  

  Fabricius 
  ? 
  

   Goniosoma 
  callianassa, 
  A. 
  Milne- 
  Edivards, 
  Archives 
  du 
  Museum, 
  x. 
  

  

  p. 
  382.(1861). 
  

   Goniosoma 
  variegatum, 
  Miers, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  p. 
  33 
  (1879). 
  

  

  I 
  append 
  a 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  I 
  suppose 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  variegatus 
  

   of 
  Fabricius, 
  the 
  synonyma 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  somewhat 
  confused. 
  

  

  Carapace 
  somewhat 
  hexagonal 
  in 
  shape, 
  with 
  the 
  postero-lateral 
  

   angles 
  rounded, 
  pubescent, 
  with 
  the 
  gastric 
  and 
  epibranchial 
  ridges 
  

  

  