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Eeport on the Podoplithalmous Crustacea of the Mergui Archi- 

 pelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.E..S., Superintendent of 

 the Museum. By Dr. J. Gr. de Man, of Middleburg, 

 Netherlands. (Communicated by Dr. John A-Ndbrson, 

 F.E.S., F.L.S.) 



[Eead 17th June, 1886.] 

 (Plates I.-XIX.) 



The Crustacea described in the following pages are mostly 

 littoral species. The Collection contains no fewer than 166 

 species, 38 of which are new to science, i. e. nearly a fourth of 

 the whole number. They are represented by about 1060 speci- 

 mens, in an excellent state of preservation. 118 species are 

 new to the Eauna of the Bay of Bengal (including Ceylon, the 

 Nicobar Islands, and Singapore), only 48 species in the Collec- 

 tion having been previously recorded from that part of the 

 Indian Ocean. These numbers are highly surprising, as the 

 Bay of Bengal has been explored, years ago, by many naturalists. 

 Large carcinological collections were made in former times by 

 French naturalists on the coast of Coromandel and at Ceylon, 

 and a still larger number of species were collected, in the 

 years 1857-59, by the famous ' ISTovara ' Expedition, at the same 

 localities and especially at the Nicobar Islands. In the Eeport 

 published in 1865, by Prof. Heller on the Decapoda and 

 Stomatopoda collected during that expedition, no less than 



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