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characterized above as reniformis ; and tliat it is the reniformis of 

 Linnaeus no one, I think, can dispute. 



Moreover, I may mention that of all the Neotropical forms it 

 is the one that has been far the most frequently sent to the British 

 Museum. 



The reniformis of Pallas, and presumably also of M. Simon, is 

 •quite a different species. It would have been to Pallas's credit 

 if he had conceived the likelihood of this before censuring Brown 

 for the inaccuracy of bis figure. It would indeed have been odd 

 if Brown's figure had fitted Pallas's specimen, seeing that the 

 former was the representation of an example differing from the 

 latter in well-marked specific, if not in generic, characters. 



Supplementary Note on the Freshwater Decapod Fauna of 

 St. Vincent. 



In the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' (6) iii. pp. 6-22 

 (1889), I published an account of the freshwater and land 

 Decapoda obtained in Dominica by Mr. Gr. A. Eamage. The 

 following list of the species of tliis group collected by Mr. H. 

 H. Smith in St. Yincent shows that the Crustacean fauna of the 

 two islands is very similar. 



PsEUDOTELPHirsA DENTATA {Latreille). 



Thelphusa dentata, Latr. Encycl. x. p. 564. 



Boscia dentata, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crustacea, ii. p. 15, pi. xviii. 

 fig. 14. 



Pseudotelphusa tenuipes, Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) iii. 

 pp. 7-9. 



St. Vincent. 



An examination of the series of examples of this species sent 

 home by Mr. Eamage and Mr. Smith has convinced me that they 

 are probably after all to be referred to P. dentata of Latr. Milne- 

 Edwards's figure of the dactylar segment of the legs, upon which 

 I formerly relied, is most likely inaccurate. 



Paljemon jamaicensis (Herhst) *. 

 Vide Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. v. p. 72.9. 

 Cumberland and Chateaubilair Elvers, 



* In my Eeport upon the Crustacea of Dominica I wrongly followed 

 Mr. Spence Bate in terming this genus Bithijnis. 



