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This species is the West-Indian representative of the genus. 
[These crabs are exported in wooden crates filled with dry leaves 
to Pernambuco, where they are in great demand as food. We 
were told they were land-crabs. — H. N. R.~\ 
Genus Actjea, de Haan. 
1850. Actaea, de Haan, Crust, in Siebold, Fauna Japonica, dec. i..p. 18. 
Actjea acantha, Milne-Edwards. 
1834. Cancer acanthus, M.-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 3/9. 
1881. Actaea acantha, A. M.-Edwards, Miss. Sci. Me. r. (Crust.) p. 245, 
pi. xliii. fig. 1. 
One minute specimen, a male, was obtained. 
It is only comparatively lately that the locality of this species 
has been made known by M. Alphonse Milne-Edvvards, who 
received a specimen of it from Guadeloupe. 
Genus Leptobitts, A. Milne-Edwards. 
1863. Leptodius, A. Milne-Edwards , Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 4, xx. 
p. 283. 
1873. Leptodius, A. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. ix. 
p. 221. 
1886. Leptodius, Miers, Brachyura of H.M.S. ‘ Challenger,’ p. 136. 
Leptodius americayus (Saussure) . 
1858. Chlorodius americanus, H. de Saussure, Mem. sur divers Crust, 
nouv. du Me. v. et des Antilles, p. 14, pi. i. fig. 5. 
1881. Leptodius americanus, A. Milne-Edwards, Miss. Sci. Mex. 
(Crust.) p. 269. 
Of this species eight specimens (5 males, 3 females with ova) 
were obtained. It is found in the West Indies and Plorida. 
Genus Lophactjba, A. Milne-Edwards. 
1862. Lophactsea, A. Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 4, 
xviii. p. 43. 
1865. Lopliactsca, A. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. i. 
p. 245. 
1886. Lophactsea, E. J. Miers, Brachyura of H.M.S. * Challenger,’ 
p. 113. 
Lophactsea lobata, Milne-Edwards. 
1834. Cancer lobatus, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 3/5. 
