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margin of the palm 5| millim., and the fingers 13 millim. ; in this 

 specimen the fingers therefore are more than twice as long as 

 the palm. 



The joints of the carpus of the legs of the second pair are 

 respectively 3|, Sf, 1|, Ig, and 14 millim, long ; the second 

 joint therefore is the longest of all, and even a little longer than 

 the first. This fact is clearly recognizable in the figure in the 

 'Pauna Japonica.' Mr. de Haan vras probably right in identi- 

 fying his specimens with the species of Fabricius, the diagnosis 

 of the latter agreeing also perfectly with this specimen. 



A. rapaoe is a rather rare species, inhabiting the Indian Ocean, 

 and the seas of China (Stimpsoji) and Japan (de Haan). 



149. Alpheus Edwaedsii, Aud. 



Athanasus Edwardsii, Audouin, Explication planches de Savigny, 

 Description de VEgypte, Atlas, pi. x. fig. 1 . 



Alpheus avarus, de Haan {nee Fabricius), Crustacea, Fauna Japonica, 

 p. 179, pi. xlv. fig. 3 (Alpheus bis-incisus on plate), 



Alpheus crassimanus. Heller, Crustacean der Novara-Reise. S. 107, 

 pi. X. fig. 2, var. 



Alpheus Edwardsii, Miers, Report on the Zoolof/ical Collections made 

 in the Indo-Paci/ic Ocean, during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert,' 1884, 

 p. 284 {with all the synonyms there recorded). 



No fewer than thirty-five specimens of different size were 

 collected, both males and females, namely, twenty specimens at 

 Owen Island, ten in King Island Bay, four young individuals 

 at Elphinstone Island, and one young specimen at Sullivan 

 Island. 



Mr. Miers deserves the thanks of carcinologists for having 

 elucidated the synonymy of this almost cosmopolitan species, and 

 I perfectly agree with him. in the opinions he has expressed. 

 I therefore not only regard A. avarus, de Haan, A. strenuus, 

 Dana, and A. leviiisculus, Dana, as identical with Savigny's spe- 

 cies, discovered in the Eed Sea, but also with Heller's A. crassi- 

 manus, described in the ' Novara Ecise.' * 



* Dr. Kossmann, when referring Eed-Sea specimens to A. crassimanus, 

 observes that the hands of his specimens did not perfectly agree with Heller's 

 figure. This may be easily explained by the fact that in the figure of the 

 ' Novara-Heise ' the smaller hand has been figured, whereas Dr. Kossmann 

 erroneously regarded it as the larger (Eossmann, Zoolog. Ergebnisse einer Eeise 

 nach dem Eothen Meere, p. 82). 



