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CLIBANARIUS CLIBANARIUS (Herbst) . 



Cancer cUhanarius Herest, Natur. Krabbeu u. Krebse, II, 1791, p. 20, pi. xxiil, 



fig.l. 

 CUhanarius vulgaris Dana, Crust. U. S. Expl. Exped., 1, 1852, p. 462. 

 "CUhanarius vulgaris (Herbst) var. ?," Thallwitz, Abb. u, Ber. K. Zool. Mus., 



Dresden, 1890-91 [1891] No. 3, p. 33. 



Range. — Oriental region; Africa. 



African localities. — Ogove (Thallwitz) ; Angola or the Kongo (Osorio) ; 

 South Africa (Krauss). 



Genus ISOCHELES Stinipson. 

 ISOCHELES ? GRACILIS Miers. 



Isocheles ? gracilis Miers, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), VIII, 1881, p. 277, pi. xvi, fig. 4. 



West African locality.— Govee Bay, Senegambia, 9 to 15 fathoms 

 (Miers). 



Genus DIOGENES Dana. 



KEY TO THE WEST AFRICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS DIOGENES. 



A. Carpus and palm of left cheliped oblong, much longer than wide. 



B. Large hand with an oblique spiuulous crest on its outer face hreviroslris. 



B'. Large hand without an oblique spinulons crest on its outer face fugilator. 



A'. Carpus and palm broad, the carpus subtriangular, the palm broader llian 

 long denficulatus. 



DIOGENES PUGILATOR (Roux) . 



Pagurus pngilaior Eoux, Crust. M6dit., 1828, pi. xiv, figs. 3, 4. 

 Diogenes rarians Miers, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), VIII, 1881, p. 272. 

 Diogenes pugilator Bouvier, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, IV, 1891, p. 396. 



Range. — From England to Kotonou, on the coast of Gabnn; Medi- 

 terranean; Black Sea. 



West African localities. — Senegal: Goree Bay, 9 to 15 fathoms 

 (Miers); Bay of Dakar (Chevreux and Bouvier); Euflsque (Bouvier). 

 Monrovia and Liberia (Bouvier). Kotonou, Gabun (Chevreux and 

 Bouvier). 



Variety OVATA Miers. 



Diogenes varians var. ovata Miers, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), VIII, 1881, p. 274. 

 West Africa. — Goree Bay, 9 to 15 fathoms (Miers); Bay of Dakar, 

 5 and 8 meters (Chevreux and Bouvier); Senegambia (Ortmann). 



Variety GRACILIMANA Miers. 



Diogenes varians var. gracilimana Miers, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), VIII, 1881, i).274. 



West Africa. — Goree Bay, 9 to 15 fathoms (Miers); Kotonou, Gabun 

 (Milne-Edwards and Bouvier). 



