118 DE. J. &. DE MAlSr ON THE PODOPHTHALMOUS 



73. Gelasimtjs anniilipes, Latr. (PI. VIII. figs. 5-7.) 

 Gelasimus annulipes, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Crustaces, p. 55, 

 pi. xviii. fig. 10-13, and Ann. Sci. Nat. 3 serie, t. xviii. p. 149, pi. iv. 

 fig. 15. 

 Gelasimus pulchellus, Stimpson, I. c. p. 100. 



Gelasimus annulipes, Hilgendorf, Crustaceen von Ost-Afrika, in Baron 

 V. d. Decken's Reise, p. 85 ; and Monatsber. d. K. preuss. Akad. d. 

 Wiss. Berlin, Nov. 1878, pp. 803-805. 

 Gelasimus perplexus, Milne- Edwards, I. c. p. 150, pi. iv. fig. 18 {teste 



Hilgendorf). 

 Gelasimus annulipes. Heller, Crustaceen der Novara-Reise, S. 38. 

 Gelasimus annulipes, Miers, Zoology of Rodriguez, Crustacea, p. 4; and 



Ann. # Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. vol. v. 1880, p. 310. 

 Gelasimus annulipes, de Man, Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. ii. 



p. 69. 

 Gelasimus annulipes, Kingsley, Carcinological Notes, II., Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1880, p. 148 *. : 



Thirty-tliree specimens (24 c? , 9 $ ) were collected ; nine 

 adult individuals having been found at Sullivan Island, and 

 fifteen young specimens at Elphinstoue Island Bay, whereas 

 the others are without a definite locality. 



The oblique line on the lateral surface of the cephalothorax 

 extends in this species to the epibranchial angle. The upper 

 surface of the carapace appears minutely punctate, when it is 

 examined under a magnifying-glass. The inferior orbital margin 

 is simple in the male ; but in the female it is bordered, at the 

 bottom of the orbits, by an accessory row of small acute granules, 

 close and parallel to it, thus resembling G. forceps, M.-Edw. 

 This character was hitherto unknown. Among twenty males, ten 

 have the larger hand on the right and ten on the left side. In 

 all the specimens, except in one variety, each finger of the larger 

 hand is armed, in addition to the other teeth, with a small tooth 

 quite at its base. The inner surface of the palm, besides the 

 oblique tuberculated crest near its under margin, is armed on its 

 anterior margin with two parallel granular crests close to the 

 articulation of the thumb {Gelasimus pulchellus, Stimps.). Two 

 or three specimens also present a remarkable variation (fig. 7), 

 difi'ering from the type in the followiDg characters. Although 

 the subterminal tooth of the immobile finger is still more or less 



* Kingsley evidently is wrong when uniting G. perplexus, M.-Edw., with 

 G. chlmophthalmus {I. c. p. 151). 



