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1829. Canobita, Latreille, Regne Animal, vol. iv, p. 
by Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing. 23 
The specimen from Durban Bay, specially examined from several 
obtained by Mr. D. R. Boyce, has the rostral apex abruptly acute, the 
ocular scales near together, ending in two unequal points, eye-stalks 
5 mm. long, slightly swollen at either end, the cornea one-tenth of the 
total length. The chelipeds are subequal, with short fifth joint and 
the fourth much longer and very broad. The second and _ third 
perzeopods have long tarsi (seventh joint) with dark tips, and the pale 
stripe with coloured borders on the last three joints, as shown in de 
Haan’s figure. 
Among features probably of no specific value may be mentioned, the 
strong spine on the palp of the first maxilla, the angularly produced 
end of the large vibratory lamina of the second maxilla and the 
narrowly produced apex of its endopod, the abruptly narrow terminal 
to the broad exopod in the first maxilliped, the remarkably powerful 
exopod in the second maxilliped compared with the rather short 
endopod, and the still more powerful exopod in the third maxilliped, 
where however the endopod is also long and strong. In both the 
second and third pairs the fourth joint is longer than the third. The 
endopods of the third pair are contiguous at their bases. 
In the pleon there are unequally biramose appendages on the left 
side pertaining to the second, third, fourth, and fifth segments, those 
of the third and fourth being slightly longer than the preceding pleopod 
but very greatly larger than that which follows. 
Famity CQANOBITIDA. 
1852. Canobitide, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. xiii, pp. 432, 435. 
1905. C., Alcock, Indian Decap. Crust., pt. 2, fase. 1, p. 138 (with 
synonymy). 
Genus CULNOBITA, Latreille. 
1825. ‘Cénobite,” Latreille, Faun. Nat. Regne Animal, p. 277 (the 
generic name only in French). 
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1905. C., Alcock, Indian Decap. Crust., pt. 2, p. 139 (with very 
numerous references, but all under Caenobita, though Milne- 
Edwards, Krauss, and Dana agree in using the inaccurate 
form Cenobita. 
