32 DR. J. G. BE MAN ON THE PODOPHTHALMOUS 



from Japan and Hongkong, and it seems to occur also in the Ked 

 Sea according to Dr. Heller. 



G-enus Chloeodius, Bupp. 



21. Chloeodius nigee, ForsTcal. 



Cancer niger, Forskcil, Descriptiones animalium Sfc. (Hafnise, 1775), 

 p. 89. 



Chlorodius nii^er, Riippell, Beschreibungen und Abbildungen von 24 

 Arten hurzschwdnzigen Krabben (Frankfurt, 1830), p. 20, Taf. iv. fig. 7- 



Chlorodius niger, Milne^Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 401 ; Alpk. 

 Milne-Edwards, L c. p. 214. 



Chlorodius niger, Stimpson, I.e. p. 31 ; Heller, I. c. p. 18. 



Cancer (Xantho) denticulatus, de Haan, Herklots, Symbolee carcino- 

 logicee (Leyden, 1861), p. 10. 



Chlorodius niger, de Man, Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. ii. 



p. 174. 



Six specimens of different sizes were collected at Elphinstone 

 Island, an adult female and five younger specimens. 



The cephalothorax of the adult individual is 23 millim. broad 

 and 15 millim. long. The specimens all belong to that variety 

 in which the two posterior antero -lateral teeth are acute, spini- 

 form, and obliquely directed foi'ward ; the two anterior antero- 

 lateral lobes and the external orbital angles are rounded. The 

 anterior margin of the arms of the chelipedes is armed with 

 a small acute tooth, and the upper margin is somewhat granular. 



This species seems to be distributed throughout the whole Indo- 

 Pacific region, having been recorded from the Eed Sea (Tor, 

 Djeddah), the Seychelles, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mauritius, 

 Madras, Nicobar Islands, the Malayan archipelago (Java, 

 Timor, Halmahera), the coasts of Australia (Port Jackson, Darn- 

 ley Island), New Gruinea, New Caledonia, and the Pacific Ocean 

 (Fiji, Loo-Choo, and Samoa Islands) as far as Tahiti. 



22. Chloeodius sculptus, AlpJi. M.-Edw. 



Chlorodius sculptus,J//jA. Milne-Edwards, Nouv.Ai-ch. du Museum Hist. 

 Nat. t. ix. p. 21 7, pi- viii. tig- 4 ; de Man, Notes from the Leyden Museum, 

 vol. iii. p. 98. 



Three fine specimens (2 (S , 1 $ ) were collected at Sullivan 

 Island. 



The cephalothorax of the largest individual is 15| millim. 

 long and 25 millim. broad. As in Chlorodius niger, so also in 

 this species, the form of the antero-lateral teeth is variable 



