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The ambulatory legs are tolerably slender, resembling tbose of 

 JPilumnm cursor, A. M.-Edw., and tbey are slightly hairy. 



In the larger specimen, the male, the distance between the last 

 antero-lateral teeth measures only 4f millim., the cephalothorax 

 being 3f millim. long. According to Dana the carapace of the 

 adult is nearly 3'" broad. 



This little crustacean has hitherto only been recorded from the 

 Strait of Balabac. 



Genus Eeiphia, Latr. 



44. Eeiphia LiETiMANA, Latr. 



Eriphia Isevimana, Latreille, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, t. i. 

 p. 427 ; Seller, Crustaceen der Novara-Reise, p. 24 ; Stimpson, I. c. p. 35 ; 

 Alph. Milne-Edwards, I. c. p. 255. 



See also : — Miers, On Malaysian Crustacea, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1880, 5th ser. vol. v. p. 237 j and Hilgendorf, Monatsher. k. Akad. d. 

 Wiss. Berlin, Nov. 1878, p. 797- 



Ten fine specimens of this species are in the Collection, three 

 very young males and seven adult females ; four of them were 

 collected at Sullivan Island, four at Owen Island, one at King 

 Island, and one at Elphinstone Island. 



In all the adult females the outer surface of the wrist and 

 of the hands in both chelipedes is wholly smooth and without 

 tubercles, so that they are typical representatives of this species ; 

 but in the smallest male specimen from Owen Island, the cara- 

 pace of which is only 10 millim. broad, the outer surface of both 

 chelipedes is covered with crowded acute tubercles. These 

 tubercles, however, have already begun to disappear in a male a 

 little larger from the same locality, which has a carapace 14 millim. 

 broad ; the tubercles in this specimen only occur on the outer 

 surface of the smaller hand, and are even much less developed 

 than in the smallest male individual. I conclude, therefore, that 

 very young male specimens of ^. Icevimana present this tuber- 

 culation, which, however, soon disappears. 



The Collection in the Leyden Museum contains two specimens 

 from the Moluccas and one from Amoy, in which the outer 

 surface of the larger hand is smooth, but that of the smaller 

 tuberculated. 



EripJiia loevimana, the type species, the chelipedes of which 

 are wholly smooth, has been collected on the coasts of Mozambique 

 and Natal, at Mauritius, the Mcobar Islands, and the Malayan 



