6 The Malacostraca of Natal 
1847. C€.c., White, Crust. in Brit. Mus., p. 14. 
1847. C.c., Jukes’ Voy. H.M.S. Fly, App. 8, vol. ii, p. 336, pl. 2, 
fig. 3. 
1850. C.c., Adams & White, Zool. Samarang. Crust, p. 37, pl. 7, 
fig. 4. 
1852. Lomera lata, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. xiii, p. 161, pl. 7, 
fig. 6a—d. 
1893. Carpilodes cinctimanus, Henderson, Tr. Linn. Soc. London, 
ser. 2, vol. v, pt. 10, p. 354. ; 
1907. Liomera lata, Stimpson, Smithson. Misc. Coll., p. 38 (with 
footnote correction to Liomera cinctumana by the editor, 
Miss M. J. Rathbun). 
Several other references, but not the earliest, are supplied by 
Alcock. The dark band on the palm of the chelipeds, to which the 
specific name refers, is absent from the figure supplied by Dana, as it 
is from our Durban specimen. Henderson explains that it is some- 
times absent from young specimens. The account given by Mr. Bell 
Marley of the freshly captured example, found beneath large stones, 
describes the colour as “ bright red, edges of carapace white, claws and 
legs banded with two shades of red.” To this it may be added that 
the fingers of the chelipeds are brownish-black with white tips, while 
the narrow fingers of the ambulatory legs are in the proximal half red, 
the distal half white, with the margins horn-coloured, in near agree- 
ment with Henderson’s account. 
The third maxillipeds have the fourth joint not half as long as the 
third, quadrangular, broader than long. 
The pleon of the female is seven-segmented, narrow, the first segment 
the widest, the seventh the longest, with apex very obtuse. The 
carapace of Mr. Bell Marley’s specimen is 21 mm. wide, 12 mm. long. 
A larger female example obtained by Mr. D. R. Boyce has a width of 
37°5 mm. and length 22 mm. 
Genus ATERGATIS, de Haan. 
See Ann. 8. Afr. Mus., vol. vi, pt. 4, p. 296, 1910. 
For Lophactea picta, A. Milne-Edwards, 1869, see M.- Edw. Le 
Bouvier, Crust. Décap. Travailleur et Talisman, p. 101, pl. 1, figs. 7- 
11, pl. 17, figs. 8-12, 1900 (seemingly identical with the following 
species). 
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