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COLLECTIONS FEOiT MELANESIA. 



Etisodes sculptilis, Heller, Sitz. Akad. Wicn, Math.-nat. Klasse, xliii. 



(i.) p. .'!•'!•'! i l>ii] ) : A. M.-Edivards, Noav. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. 



ix. p. 236, pi. ix. fig. 2 (1873). 

 Chlorodius samoensis, Miers, Ann. <§* Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xvi. 



p. 341 (1875). 



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-Museum collection are specimens from the Gulf of 

 Suez (R. MaeAndrew) ; Philippines {Cuming); Samoa Islands (Rev. 

 S.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 synonynrical citations given 

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



51. Etisodes anaglyptus (M.-Edw.). 



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 (Cuming), referred by "White to E. anaglyptus : 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 Paver, and another from the Malaysian seas, 



* ' Kegne Animal,' CrustactSs, Atlas, pi. xi. fig. 4. 



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