528 COLLECTIONS FROM THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. 



palm is keeled along the distal half of its upper margin, and, as 

 well as the wrist, is very evenly punctulated. 



Dr. Hilgeudorf has already recorded this species from Mozam- 

 bique and Ibo and from the Mauritius. 



In two specimens in the British-Museum collection from the Sand- 

 wich Islands ( IF. //. Pease), referred to L. intosus (Randall), with 

 which species L. nitidus (Heller) is very probably identical, the 

 carapace is relatively broader, the front less prominent, and the 

 palms of the chelipedes much more rugose above. It may be that a 

 larger series would demonstrate the necessity of uniting these 

 with L. dodone, when it would prove to bo a widely distributed 

 Indo-Pacific species. 



18. Liomera punctata (M.-Ediv.). 



A small male from the beach at Darros Island (No. 200), in which, 

 however, the red punctulation has completely disappeared, is referred 

 here. 



Specimens of the same species are in the British-Museum collec- 

 tion from the Seychelles (Dr. E. P. Wright) ; Madagascar, Tamatave 

 {Rev. Deans Cowan) ; Bed Sea, Daedalus Shoal (Lt.-Col. Playfair) ; 

 Ceylon, Galle {Dr. W. Ondaatje). 



The types were from the Mauritius, and A. Milne-Edwards re- 

 cords this species from New Caledonia ; hence it has undoubtedly a 

 wide Oriental distribution. 



In the adult examples in the Museum collection the front is much 

 more deeply incised than in the smaller ones. 



By M. A. Milne-Edwards this species is retained in the genus 

 XantJto ; but it appears to me that it should be referred to the genus 

 Liomera, which should include all those species in which the cara- 

 pace is markedly transverse, as in Carpilodes, with the two anterior 

 of the antero-lateral teeth obsolete and the two posterior rounded, 

 the legs not cristated, the finger-tips not distinctly excavated, and 

 the basal antenual joint reaching to the subfrontal process, but not 

 included within the inner orbital hiatus. 



19. Actsea rufopunctata (M.-Edw.). 



Seychelles, 4-12 fms., a small female (No. 194). 



Specimens of this widely distributed form are in the Museum col- 

 lection from the Mauritius (Old Collection); Daedalus Shoal, Bed 

 Sea (Lt.-Col. Playfair); Ceylon, Galle (Dr. W. Ondaatje); Keeling 

 or Cocos Island (Lt. Bumaby) ; Eijis (ff.M.S. 'Herald'); and 

 Samoa Islands (Rev. S. J. Whitmee) ; also probably from the Hotspur 

 Bank, S. Atlantic (the specimen referred to in the Beport on Dr. 

 Coppinger's collections in the Magellan Straits and S. Atlantic), 

 and Madeira (Rev. R. Boog Watson). The specimens from Madeira 

 have lost the characteristic coloration, but otherwise closely resemble 

 Oriental examples. 



