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FaM. : GOXEPLACIDAE. 



1900. Gonoplacidae, Alcock, Joiim. Asiat, Soc- Bengal, vol. 6g, 

 pt, 2, pp. 283, 297. 

 The following definition is given by Alcock : — " Marine Cato- 

 metopes closely resembling Cyclometopes. The palp of the ex- 

 ternal maxillipeds articulates at or near the antero-internal angle 

 of the merits [fourth joint], never at the antero-external angle or 

 at the middle of the anterior border ; the exognath of the external 

 maxilhpeds is of normal size and is not concealed. The inter- 

 antennular septum is a thin plate. The division of the orbit into 

 two fossae is not accented." 



Gen. : Goneplax, Leach. 



1813-1814. Goneplax, J^each, Edinb. Encyl.,vol, 7, p. 430. Art. 

 Crustaceology. 



1815. Goneplax, Leach, Trans. Linn- Soc. London, vol. 11, p. 



1816. GonoPlax, Leach, Encycl. Brit., p. 413, Art. Annulosa. 

 1837. Gonoplax, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat- Crust, vol. 2, p. 60. 

 1853. Gonoplax, Bell, British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, p. 129. 

 1886. Gonoplax, Miers, Challenger Brachyura, Reports, vol. 17, 



P- 245- 

 1873. Gonoplax, Stebbing, History of Crustacea, p. 91. 

 1900- Gonoplax, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 69, pt. 2, 



p. 316. 

 Several other references might be given, but they can be easily 

 traced Thenamefirstappears in the form GonepLataX page 393 

 of Leach's Crustaceology, but he then gives Ocypode angiilala, las 

 the sixth species of Ocypode, though appending the following 

 paragraph : — " Cancer angulatus of Linne, Fabricius, and 

 Pennant ; Ocypode bisponosa of Lamarck ; Goiitplat bispojiosa. 

 Leach, MSS. Vide Goneplnt in Index." 



I cannot regard this as an institution of the genus Goneplat, 

 while its only species is retained under Ocypode. In the Index 

 the name given is not Goneplat, but Goneplax, with a reference to 

 page 432,^ although it is on page 430 that Goneplax is in fact de- 

 fined. The reference to Linne is also misleading, since Cancer] 

 angulatus is a species dating from Pennant in 1777, and is subse- 

 quently mentioned, not by Linnaeus, but in Gmelin's edition of 

 the Svstema Naturae. 



Goeplax axculata (Pennant). 

 1777. Cancer mtgalatus, Pennant, British Zoology, vol. 4, p. 7, 



pi. 5, fig. 10. :! :: ; 



