1803. Cancer aiiificiosa, Her.bst, Krabben und Krebse^ vol. 3, pt 



3> P- 54, pl- 58. fig. 7. 

 1837- Droinia artidciosa, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol 

 2, p. 176, foot-note to account of D. fallax, Lamarck. 

 1858. Conchoccetes artificiosus, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Philad., p 



240 (yS). 

 1882. Droiiiia concliifera, Haswell, Catal, Austral. Crust., p. 141 



pi. 3. fig. 4- (and Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S- Wales, vol- 6, p 



757)- 

 1887- Conchoccetes coiichifera, A- O. ^^'alker, Journ. Linn. Soc 



London, vol- 20, pp. 108, iii. 

 1899. Conchoccetes artificiosus, Alcock, Journ. Asiat- Soc. Bengal 



vol- 68, p. 151. 

 1901- Conchoccetes artiiiciosus, Alcock, Catal- Indian Decap 



Crust., Brachyura primgenia, p. 41, pi. 3, fig- i6- 

 The short close pubescence which covers this species is said 

 by Haswell to be green. In formalin it is brown, with perhaps a 

 greenish shade in it. I do not find the dimensions given by any 

 author except Haswell, who reports it from Port Dienison and 

 Port IMolle, and gives length f^ in. ; breadth, f in. The speci- 

 men from South Africa has the carapace in the medium line 21.25 

 mm. long, and its greatest breadth 22.25 mm-, the breadth, there- 

 fore, being a little greater than the length, instead of the reverse 

 as in the Australian specimen- But it must be remembered that 

 the median line is measured from the central tooth of the front, 

 which is smaller and less advanced than its two companions. A 

 line from either of these to the hind margin gives the carapace of 

 the African specimen a length of 22-50. The dorsal length 

 in the median line, including the three protruded segments of the 

 pleon, is 30 m m. 



In forwarding the specimen from Cape Town, Dr. Gilchrist 

 informed me that the animal had been tied into its valve when 

 procured, in order to show how the shell is held, otherwise these 

 creatures, when brought on deck, speedily leave their covert- 

 The fourth pair of legs are, in fact, still grasping the shell valve 

 in a defiant manner, though they appear to have shaken off the 

 rest of the animal as a useless incumbrance, and by this detach- 

 ment facility of examination was considerably increased. 



Locality: — Amatikulu' River N.W., distant 7^ miles (coast 

 of Zululand), from 26 fathoms. 



FaM. : HOMOLIDAE. 



Homltdae, Henderson, Challenger Anomura, Reports, 

 vol. 27, p. 18. 

 1892. Homolidac, Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb-. vol. 6, p. 540. 



