50 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



Genus HALIMEDE De Haan 



In this genus the praelabial area is smooth, with no indication of a 

 ridge defining the efferent passage. The orbits have two fissures 

 above and two below, the external inferior fissure forming an hiatus 

 as well marked as in Panopeus. 



68. HALIMEDE FRAGIFER De Haan 



Halimede fragifer De Haan, Fauna Japonica, Crust., p. 47, pi. xiii, fig. 4. 



The color in life is, above bluish-gray and white, mottled ; below 

 paler. 



Dredged from a shelly bottom, in 10 fathoms, near Hongkong, 

 China. 



Genus CHLORODIUS Leach 



69. CHLORODIUS CYTHEREA^ Dana 



Clilorodius cytherea Dana, U. S. Exploring Expedition, Crust., i, 213. pi. 

 XII, fig. 2. 



Taken by us at the Sandwich Islands and at Ousinia. 



70. CHLORODIUS NIGER ' (Forskal) Riippell 



Cancer niger Forskal. 



Clilorodius niger RtJppELL, Krabben des rothen Meeres, p. 20, pi. iv, fig. 7. 

 MiivNE Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Crust., p. 401. Dana, U. S. Explor- 

 ing Expedition, Crust., i, 216, pi. xii, fig. 5. 



In living specimens the color is uniform blue-black above ; below 

 bluish; articulations of the feet yellowish. 



Found by us at the Bonin Islands, at L,oo Choo, and at Tahiti, 

 always among living corals, below low-water mark. It is also found 

 in the Red Sea (Riippell), in the Sooloo Sea, at Mangsi, the Fiji 

 Islands, Tongatabu, Wakes Island, and Upolu (Dana). 



71. CHLORODIUS MONTICULOSUS = Dana 



Chlorodius inontlciilosus Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Crust., i, 206. pi. xi, 

 fig. 9. 



Of a purplish-brown color in life, variegated with white or yellow- 

 ish-Avhite. The fingers, and sometimes the whole hand, are deep 



^ Chlorodiella niger (Forskal). 



' Phymodius itngulatus (JsiWnc Edwards). 



