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Archipelago. THe Leyden Museum contains specimens also from 

 Padang, Timor, Zulla-Bessy, Gebeh, Amboina, and Halmahera. 

 It Las also been found on the coast of New Caledonia and on 

 many islands of the Pacific Ocean, tlie Eiji and Samoa Islands, 

 and the Paumotu Archipelago ; it is, moreover, recorded from the 

 Philippines, the Loo-Choo Islands, and even from the Japanese 

 seas (Stimpson). 



Grenus Tbapezia, Latr. 



45. Trapezia ctmodoce, Herlst. 



Cancer cymodoce, Herhst, Krahben und Krebse, iii. pi. li. fig. 5. 



Trapezia dentata, Alph. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch, du Museum Hist. 

 Nat. 1873, t. ix. p. 261. 



Trapezia cymodoce, Miers, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, 5th ser. vol. ii. 

 p. 409. 



Trapezia cymodoce, de Man, Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. ii. 



p. 177. 



Two specimens were collected, one at Elphinstone Island and 

 one at King Island. 



Trapezia cymodoce has been collected in the Red Sea (Gulf of 

 Suez, Djeddah), at Ceylon, in the Malayan Archipelago (Am- 

 boina, Manipa, Xulla-Bessy), the Philippine Islands, and finally 

 on the coasts of New Caledonia, Australasia, the Fiji Islands, and 

 the Marquesas group. 



Family Poetunidj-:. 



Genus Neptunijs, de Haan. 



46. Nepttjntjs pelagicus, Linne. 

 Cancer pelagicus, Linne, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 434. 

 Portunus pelagicus, Fabricius, Suppl. Entom. Syst. p. 367- 



Lupa pelagica, H. Milne-Edwards, Hist. Wat. Crustaces, t. i. p. 450. 



Neptunus pelagicus, Alph. Milne-Edwards, Etudes Zoolog. sur les 

 Portuniens recents, in Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1861, 

 t. X. p. 320. 



A single young male specimen was collected at Elphinstone 

 Island. 



Neptunus pelagicus is distributed throughout the whole Indo- 

 Pacifie region from tlie Eed Sea and Zanzibar as far as Tahiti. 



47. Neptunus gladiatoe. Fair. 



Portunus gladiator, Fabricius, Suppl. Entom. p. 368. 



Lupa gladiator, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat, CrustacSs, t. i. p. 456. 



