614 OOLLECTIOirs FEOM THE WESTERN INDIAS OCEAN. 



and others concerning the Podophthalmia and Edriophthalmia of the 

 Eed-Sea coasts. In the latter year also was published M. A. Milne- 

 Edwards's enumeration (with descriptions of a few new species) of 

 the Cmstacea of Keunion*. 



In 1868 M. A. Milne-Edwards published an account of the 

 Crustacea collected by M. A. Grandidier at Zanzibar and Mada- 

 gascar (Cape St. Maiief) ; and in the following year, in the third 

 volume of Baron C. von der Decken's 'Travels in East Africa' 

 appeared the careful account by Dr. P. Hilgendorf of the Crus- 

 tacea collected in that Expedition, to which is appended a very 

 useful and complete systematic list, by Dr. E. von Martens, of 

 all the known Crustaceans of the East- African coasts and islands 

 adjacent i. 



In 1874 a Keport appeared by C. K. Hoffmann, entitled ' Sur les 

 Crustac^s et Echinodermes de Madagascar et de I'lle de la Reunion '§, 

 based upon the extensive collections made by the author himself and 

 by MM. Pollen and van Dam, wherein also numerous species are 

 enumerated from the Mauritius. 



In 1878 the Crustacea of Mozambique vere dealt with by Dr. F. 

 Hilgendorf, in the very useful memoir entitled " Die von Hrn. "W. 

 Peters in Mogambique gesammelten Crustaceen"|| ; a few species 

 from the same locality had been previously enumerated by Prof. J. 

 Bianconi in 1869 f . 



Ill 1879, in the " Report of the Naturalists of the British Transit- 

 of-Venus Expedition," were enumerated the Crustaceans collected 

 at the island of Rodriguez, all, except Talitrus gulliveri, Podo- 

 phthalmia, and nearly all common and widely distributed species**- 



In 1880 was published the excellent account, by Dr. E. Richters, 

 of the Decapoda in Prof. Mobius's work on the marine fauna of the 

 Mauritius and Seychelles tt, to which frequent reference is made in. 

 the following pages. Since the appearance of this work, I have 

 given Jt an account of some new or remarkable species collected at 

 the Mauritius by M. V. de Robillard. 



In 1881 Drs. H. Lenz and P. Richters, in a memoir entitled 

 " Beitrag zur Krustaceen-Pauna von Madagascar " §§, enumerated a 



* Annexe P, Orustae^s, In Maillard's ' Notes sur I'He de la E^union.' Paris, 

 8to (1863). 



t NouTelles Archires du Museum, iv. p. 69 (1868). 



I Vide Hilgendorf, Crustaoeen in V. der Decken's Eeisen in Osfc-Afriia, iii. (1) 

 p. 1, and Ton Martens, t. e. p. 104 (1869). 



§ In F. Pollen & D. v. Dam, ' Eecherches sur la Paune de Madagascar,' &c. 

 (8= partie). Leyden (1874). 4to. 



II Monatsber. der Akad. Wissenseh. Berlin, p. 782 (1878). 



IT " Specimina zoologica mosambioana," fase. xrii., in Mem. dell' Accademia 

 di Bologna, ser. 2, ii. p. 205 (1869). 



*» nde E. J. Miers, in Phil. Trans. Royal Society, clx-viii. p. 485 (1879)1 



tt Richters, Decapoda in Mobius's 'Beitrage zur Meeresfeuua der Insel 

 Mauritius und der Seychellen,' 4to, Berlin (1880). 



\\ Proc. Zool. Soc. pp. 339, 538 (1882) ; p. 10 (1884). 



§§ Vide Abhandl. Senckenberg. naturf. Gesellsoh. Bd. xii. p. 421 (1881). 



