MUNIDA OBESA. 



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point is not brought out in the figure on Plate XV., but the reader is cau- 

 tioned against inferring that there is any difference in this regard between 

 the " Albatross '' specimens and the one figured by Milne Edwards. The 

 length of the rostral horn is somewhat variable, being often considerably 

 longer than in the specimen figured. 



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Diet. Sci. Nat., XVIIL 52, 1820. 



About forty-five species of Mitnida are now known. The "Albatross" 

 collection of 1891 contains five species, four of which were previously 

 unknown. Professor Alphonse Milne Edwards's final illustrated report on the 

 Galateidce collected by the " Blake " Expeditions has not yet appeared, but I 

 have before me the types of the ten species of Miinida briefly diagnosed in his 

 preliminary report which was published in 1880.* The specimens ('^ Blake" 

 Sta. No. 36) recorded by Milne Edwards as Miinida caribhcea Stimps. are the 

 same species as those described on the same page as a new species under the 

 name Miinida irrasa. The specimens doubtfully referred to Mimida carihlma 



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Stimp- 



son's Mimida carihhcca is absolutely indeterminable from his brief notice of \i^% 

 and the types were burned in the great Chicago fire. The name carihhwa 

 should, then, be dropped and Milne Edwards's iris and irrasa should bo 

 retained. 



Professor Henderson § considers Mimida w&./a Smith to be identical with 



with Smith's 



Munida miles A. M. Edw. On comparing the types of M. 



figure of 31, valida^ it appears that the supraocular spines are much longer 



and more divergent in the latter than they are in M. miles. 



Munida obesa Fax. 



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Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXIV. 176, 1893. 



In this species we see an approach to the genus rieuroiicodes^ since the 

 sides or latero-inferior walls of the carapace are somewhat swollen^ so that 



* Bull. Mas. Comp. Zool, YIII 47-52, Dec. 1880. 



t Proc. U. S. Nal;. Mus., III. 438, Jan. 1881 ; Bull Mus. Corap. Zool., X. 29, Plato X. Fig. 1, 1882; 

 Proo. U. S. Nal. Mus., VI. 40, Plaic JIT. Pi-. 11, 1883; Auu. Ilcp. U. S. Pisli Comm. for 1882, p. 355, 

 1884 ; id. for 1885, p. C43, 1886. 



X Ami. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., YII. 244, 18G0. 



§ Hep. Cliallengcr Anomura, p. 12G, 1888. 



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