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  CRUSTACEA. 
  

  

  BT 
  

  

  E. 
  J. 
  MIEES. 
  

  

  The 
  collection 
  of 
  Crustacea 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  Indian 
  Ocean, 
  if 
  less 
  

   numerous 
  in 
  species 
  and 
  less 
  interesting 
  than 
  those 
  obtained 
  on 
  the 
  

   Australian 
  coasts, 
  contains 
  a 
  larger 
  number 
  of 
  rare 
  or 
  uudescribed 
  

   forms 
  than 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  expected, 
  when 
  it 
  is 
  remembered 
  that 
  

   the 
  localities 
  are 
  all 
  included 
  in 
  a 
  region 
  whose 
  Crustacean 
  fauna 
  

   has 
  been 
  repeatedly 
  explored 
  by 
  the 
  collector. 
  Of 
  the 
  Islands, 
  

   however, 
  visited 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Coppinger, 
  the 
  Amirante, 
  Providence, 
  and 
  

   Glorioso 
  groups 
  have 
  been 
  hitherto 
  terrcB 
  inco(/nitce 
  to 
  the 
  carcino- 
  

   logist, 
  and 
  but 
  little 
  has 
  been 
  hitherto 
  reorded 
  of 
  the 
  Crustacean 
  

   fauna 
  of 
  the 
  Seychelles. 
  

  

  It 
  may 
  be 
  useful 
  (as 
  in 
  the 
  previous 
  part 
  of 
  this 
  Report) 
  to 
  men- 
  

   tion 
  here 
  the 
  principal 
  memoirs 
  which 
  have 
  appeared 
  since 
  the 
  

   publication 
  of 
  Mihie-Edwards's 
  ' 
  Histoire 
  naturelle 
  des 
  Crustaces 
  ' 
  

   (1834-40) 
  which 
  deal 
  specially 
  with 
  the 
  Crustacean 
  fauna 
  of 
  the 
  

   East-African 
  coast 
  from 
  the 
  lied 
  Sea 
  to 
  the 
  Cape 
  of 
  Good 
  Hope, 
  and 
  

   of 
  the 
  Mascarene 
  Islands 
  and 
  other 
  islands 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  

   geographical 
  subrcgion. 
  

  

  In 
  1843 
  appeared 
  Dr. 
  F. 
  Krauss's 
  valuable 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  South- 
  

   African 
  Crustacea*, 
  containing 
  a 
  complete 
  enumeration 
  of 
  the 
  then 
  

   known 
  Podophthalmia 
  and 
  Edriophthalmia 
  of 
  the 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  and 
  

   Katal, 
  a 
  work 
  which 
  even 
  now 
  forms 
  the 
  standard 
  of 
  reference 
  for 
  

   all 
  students 
  of 
  the 
  South-African 
  Crustacea. 
  Since 
  its 
  publication 
  

   few 
  additions 
  have, 
  indeed, 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  

   South-African 
  marine 
  and 
  littoral 
  Crustacea 
  beyond 
  the 
  descriptions 
  

   of 
  certain 
  new 
  species 
  by 
  Dr. 
  W. 
  Stimpsonf. 
  

  

  In 
  1861-62 
  appeared 
  Dr. 
  C. 
  Heller's 
  standard 
  work, 
  " 
  Beitriige 
  zur 
  

   Crnstaceen-Fauna 
  des 
  rothen 
  Meeres"'+, 
  which 
  added 
  largely 
  to 
  what 
  

   w 
  as 
  previously 
  known 
  from 
  the 
  writings 
  of 
  Milne-Edwards, 
  Eiippell, 
  

  

  * 
  ' 
  Die 
  siidafrikanischen 
  Crustacecn,' 
  S^tuttgart 
  (1843), 
  4to. 
  

   t 
  Proc. 
  Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sci. 
  Pliiladelphia, 
  18fi7-t)0. 
  

  

  * 
  Sitzungsber. 
  Akad. 
  Wisscngchaft. 
  Wien, 
  xliii. 
  (1) 
  p. 
  297, 
  xliv. 
  (1) 
  p. 
  241 
  

   (I8()l-ti2). 
  

  

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