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by kev. T. R. R. Stebbing. yi 
to it, thus resembling G. forceps, Milne-Edwards. This character was 
hitherto unknown.” Alcock also says, ‘‘in the female only there is a 
short row of granules inside of and parallel with the lower border of 
the orbit.” 
Numerous specimens have been obtained by Mr. D. R. Boyce and 
Mr. H. W. Bell Marley at Durban. The latter assiduous collector 
has noted the colouring of various specimens; in the male, carapace 
black with dots and lines, large claw on the right orange and white ; 
carapace black and white, legs paler, large claw missing; carapace 
black with pale blue dots, eyes pale grey, large claw on right vermilion 
and white; carapace nearly all blue, large claw on left, bright red, 
other legs red and black ; in the female, carapace black and blue with 
margin of white, legs red and marked dark ; carapace black with red; 
carapace mottled brown, legs brown and black; carapace black and 
blue with grey. 
Genus DOTILLA, Stimpsom. 
1858. Dotilla, Stimpson, Pr. Ac. Philad., vol. x, p. 98 (44). 
1900. D., Alcock, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. Ixix, p. 363 (with 
synonymy). 
1903. D., Nobili, Bull. Mus. Torino, vol. xviii, no. 447, p. 22, and 
no. 452, p. 20. 
1907. D., Stimpson, Smithson. Mise. Coll., vol. xlix, p. 101. 
1914. D., Rathbun, Pr. U.S. Mus., vol. xlvii, p. 83. 
1915. D., Kemp, Mem. Ind. Mus., vol. v, p. 222. 
1915. D., R. D. Laurie, J. Linn. Soc. London, vol. xxxi, pp. 407, 467. 
In the illustrated edition of the Regne Animal, figures 3, 3a and 
3b, on pl. 18, profess to be copied from Savigny’s Egypte, Crust. pl. 4, 
fig. 4. In fact they are from his pl. 1, fig. 3. De Haan in 1833, 
when defining Doto as a subgenus of Ocypode, used a preoccupied 
name, and from want of specimens was forced, as he explains, to 
borrow the characters from the figures given by Savigny on the plate 
which he quotes correctly. Hence de Haan’s figures of the mouth- 
organs have no independent value. In Savigny’s beautiful drawings 
the palp of the mandible is rather indefinite, as though the artist 
could not make up his mind whether it was two-jointed or three- 
jointed. In the species here dealt with it is not even two-jointed, 
and folds closely down upon the cutting edge of the membranaceous 
trunk. 
