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* Marertau.—EHast Africa: Strait at Changamive, 3% mi. from 
Mombasa, Nov. 21-30, 1909, E. A. Mearns, 2 males. 
Malay Peninsula: Menam at Paknam, Siam, July 5, 1923, H. M. 
Smith, 1 juv; Chao Phya River, Paknam, Siam, June 3, 1927, H. M. 
Smith, 1 male, 1 juv; Bangpa Kong River, Siam, June 4, 1928, H. M. 
Smith, 3 males, 1 female; Sta. 10002, from Thailand, purchased, 
received Aug. 24, 1955, R. EH. Elbel, 1 male. 
China: U.S. Nav. Med. Res. Unit 2, Taipei, Formosa, purchased, 
received Feb. 13, 1958, R. E. Kuntz, 1 male. 
Philippines: Port San Pio Quinto, China Sea, vicinity of Batanes, in 
small stream near mouth, 20 ft. seme, Nov. 11, 1908, Alb., 1 male. 
Australia: U42-728 Ironstone Reef about 3 mi. W. of Yirrkala, 
Aug. 27, 1948, R. R. Miller, 1 ovig. female; Little Lagoon and vicinity 
northeastern end Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria, 1948, R. R. 
Miller, 2 females. 
Japan: OPM958, Hentonia, Okinawa, Sept. 19, 1945, O. A. Muen- 
nink, 1 female. 
MrASuUREMENTS.—Males, 29-88 mm.; females, 26-123 mm.; ovig. 
female, 170 mm.; juvs., 26-28 mm. 
DistriputTion.—Hast Africa to Tahiti. Recorded from New 
Zealand by Miers (1876), with the record repeated by later workers 
including Chhapgar (1957) and Stephenson (1961b). Hutton (1882) 
suspected this record, but it has been confirmed by Dell (1964b). 
Genus Thalamita Latreille, 1829 
See Stephenson and Hudson, 1957, p. 361, for synonymy. 
Thalamita admete (Herbst) 
Fiaure 20 
Cancer admete Herbst, 1803, pp. 40-41, pl. 57 (fig. 1). 
Thalamita admete (Herbst).—Latreille, 1829, p. 33 (fide Miers, 1886).—A. 
Milne Edwards, 1861, pp. 356-357.—Heller, 1865, p. 28.—Miers, 1884, p. 
230.—Ortmann, 1893, p. 83.—Borradaile, 1900, p. 579.—Calman, 1900, 
p. 23.—Lenz, 1905, p. 362.—Rathbun, 1907, p. 63.—Nobili, 1907, p. 383.— 
Rathbun, 1911, p. 208—Edmondson, 1923, p. 1550; 1925, p. 37; 1954, 
pp. 255-256, figs. 30a,b, 3la-e.—Sakai, 1939, pp. 414, 421-422, pl. 85 (fig. 
1).—Ward, 1942, p. 80.—Barnard, 1950, p. 176, fig. 33¢.—Holthius, 1953, 
p. 7.—Stephenson and Hudson, 1957, pp. 320, 324-326, figs. 2I, 31, pls. 1 
(fig. 1), 7A, 10A.—Stephenson, 1961a, p. 117.—Forest and Guinot, 1961, 
p. 30, figs. 19a,b.—Sankarankutty, 1961a, p. 106; 1961b, p. 122.—Crosnier, 
1962, pp. 96-97, figs. 154, 157, 162-164, 168. 
Thalamita savignyi A. Milne Edwards, 1861, pp. 357-358, 367.—Ortmann, 
1894, p. 46. 
Thalamita admeta (Herbst).—Alcock, 1899, pp. 82-84.—Tweedie, 1950a, p. 84, 
fig. 2b. 
Thalamita admete var. edwardsi Borradaile, 1900, p. 579.—Nobili, 1907, p. 383. 
