232 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 ( jN t o. 95), and the other on 

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

 from Port Darwin, found on the beach (jS t o. 176). 



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

 ing Australian localities : — Port Curtis (J. Macgillivray, H.M.S. 

 « Rattlesnake ') ; Torres Straits (J. B. Jakes) ; and N. Australian 

 coast (Br. J. R. Elsey). There are also specimens from New Guinea 

 and Amboina (Br. Bleeker's collection), and Sunday Island (J. B. 

 Jukes), besides others without special indication of locality. 



Recorded 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, Ruppett. 



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 tbe Queensland coast (J. Macgillivray, H.M.S. 

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

 from the Mauritius (Lady F. Cole) ; Xatal (F. M. Rayner, H.M.S. 

 ' Herald ') ; Timor Laut (H. 0. Forbes) ; India, Karachi (Karachi 

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

 Whitmee) ; and others without special locality. 



73. Goniosoma variegatum. 



Portunus variegatus, Fabricius, Entomologies Systematica Supple- 



mentum, p. 3(34 (1798) ; M.-Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Crustaces, i. 



p. 405 (1834). 

 Cancer callianassa, Jlerbst, Nccburgesch. d. Krabben u. Krebse, iii. 



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

 Charvbdis variegatus, Be Haan, Crust, in Siebold, Fauna Japonica, 



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

 Cbavybdis truncatus, Be Haan, t. c. p. 65, pi. xviii. fig. 2 (1837), nee 



Fabricius ? 

 Goniosoma callianassa, A. Milne-Edwards, 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 



