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COLMOTIOUS PEOM KELANESIA. 



Etisodes aculptilis, Heller, Sitz. Akad. Wien, Math.-nut. Slasse, xliii. 



(i.) p. 333 (1861) ; A. M.-JEdwarda, Nouv. Archiv. Mm. Hist. Nat. 



ix. p. 236, pL ix. fig. 2 (1873). 

 Chlorodius samoensis, Miers, Ann. Sr Mag. Nat, Hist. ser. 4, xvi. 



p. 341 (] 875). 



A small female was obtained on a coral-reef off Clairmont 

 (No. 151). 



Mr. HasweU records it from Holbom Island (as E. frontalis). 

 In the British-Museum collection are specimens from the Gulf of 

 ^Vl&l {R. MoMAndrew) % Philippines (Cwmm^'); Samoa Islands (22«u. 

 S. J. Whitmee, types of GMorodius samoensis) ; Sandwich Islands 

 ( W. H. Pease) ; and others without special locality. 



In this very variable species th« front is usually 4-lobed (without 

 including the inner orbital angle), but sometimes the" submedian 

 incisions are so shallow that the lateral lobes are scarcely defined ; it 

 also varies much in the distinctness of the areolation of the carapace 

 and the granulation of the chelipedes. I have little doubt, however, 

 that all the forms referred to in the synonymical citations given 

 above are varieties of one widely distributed Indo-Pacific species. 



51. Etisodes anaglyptus {M.-Edw.). 



An adult female from Clairmont, obtained on a coral-reef (No. 

 151), belongs here. 



This specimen certainly belongs to the same species as do two 

 specimens in the British-Museum collection from the Philippine 

 Islands {Cuming), referred by White to_E. anaglypttis ; but these aH 

 differ from Milne-Edwards's figure in the large illustrated edition of 

 Cuvier* in having the frontal lobes divided by_ a deeper median 

 fissure, and these lobes are themselves not merely truncated but also 

 have the distal ends slightly convex, and the teeth of the antero- 

 lateral margins are somewhat more conical and acute than in that 

 figure. I may add that the lobules of the carapace have a few 

 scattered punctulations, the tubefculation on the outer surface of 

 the hands shows a disposition to arrangement in longitudinal series, 

 and the black coloration of the fingers in the male extends over the 

 inner and outer surface of the palms. 



52. Menippe (Myomenippe) legoxiilloTii, A. M.-Edw. 



Several specimens are in the collection from Port Curtis, obtained 

 either on the beach (Nos. 88, 96) or dredged at 7-11 fms. (No. 85). 

 Length of the largest specimen about 1 inch 7 lines (40 millim.), 

 greatest breadth about 2 in. 3 lines (57 miUim.). In the smaller 

 specimens the distinctions between the median and the rest of the 

 frontal teeth are much less marked than in the fuU-sized example. 



In the British-Museum collection there are, besides, only a 

 specimen from Swan Eiver, and another from the Malaysian seas, 



* ' E^gne Animal,' OruBtac6s, Atlas, pL xi. fig. 4. 



