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personally, is only known from Pocock's very brief description.* 

 For the information given in the table I am under great obliga- 

 tion to Doctor Caiman, who at my request made a special exam- 

 ination of the original specimens preserved in the British 

 Museum. From the combination of characters which it posses- 

 ses it is evident that G. tuberosus is quite distinct from any of 

 the allied species. 



Gonodactylus glaber Lenz. 



Gonodactylus gluber Kemp, Mem. Ind. Mus. (1913), 4, 182, PI. X, 

 fig. 121. 

 No. 0-338. Port Galera, Mindoro (Cowles) , March 30, 1912, 2 5, 24 and 

 25 mm. 



The two specimens differ considerably from the examples in 

 the Indian Museum. The last abdominal somite and telson are 

 fused together, and the groove separating them is wholly invis- 

 ible. There is, moreover, no trace whatever of the elevations 

 on the sixth somite, while those on the telson are only very 

 slightly raised above the surface. 



The differences are so great that I would without hesitation 

 have referred the specimens to a new variety, or even species, 

 had it not been that they are in extremely poor condition and 

 that there is a possibility that the characters noted are due 

 merely to post-mortem changes. The specimens have evidently 

 been preserved in strong formalin, and I am inclined to think 

 that this, while it has greatly softened all the calcareous parts, 

 has caused the hinder end of the body to swell and thus has 

 obliterated to a great extent the sculpture of those parts. 



Gonodactylus glaher has hitherto been recorded only from the 

 Andaman Islands, Ceylon, and Zanzibar. 



Gonodactylus giyptocercus Wood-Mason. 



Gonodactylus giyptocercus Kemp, Mem. Ind. Mus. (1913), 4, 186. 

 No. 0-338. Port Galera, Mindoro (Cowles), March 30, 1912, 1 ?, 25 mm. 



Gonodactylus spinosissimus Pfeffer. 



Gonodactylus spinosissinws Kemp, Mem. Ind. Mus. (1913), 4, 191, 

 PI. X, figs. 124, 125. 

 No. 0-1088. Taytay, Palawan (Cotvles and Laki) , April 21, 1913, 2 ?, 

 81 and 34 mm. 



This species has hitherto been recorded only from the Red Sea, 

 Ceylon, and Zanzibar. 



'Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) (1893), 11, 476, PL XXB, fig. 2. 



