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allied species ; but in the adalt male from Singapore in the British- 

 Museum collection both carapace and chelipedes are much more 

 spinulose, and the black coloration of the fingers extends over the 

 inner and outer surface of the hand. 



30. CMorodopsis areolatus. 



Chlorodius areolatus, M.-Edivards, Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 400 (1834). 

 Xantho dehaanii, Krauss, Siidafrik. Crustaceen, p. 29, pi. i. fig. 2 



(1843), nee Savigny. 

 ? Chlorodius perlatus, McLeay, Annulosa in Smith's Zool. S. Africa, 



p. 59 (1849). 

 ? Etisodes coelatus, Dana, Pr. Acad. Nat. Set. Philad. p. 77 (1852) ; 



U.S. Bxpl. Exp., Crust, xiii. p. 188, pi. ix. fig. 4 (1852). 

 Chlorodopsis areolatus, A. M.-Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. Mits. Hist. 



Nat. ix. p. 231, pi. viii. fig. 8 (1873) ; Hilgendorf, Monatsb. Akad. 



Wissensph. Berlin, p. 790 (1878) ; Richters, Decapoda in Mobius's 



Beitrdge zur Meeresfauna der tnsel Mauritius und der Seychellen, 



p. 148 (1880). 



A good series of specimens was obtained on the beach at Darros 

 Island (No. 199) ; also a female at Mozambique (No. 224). 



Specimens are in the British-Museum collection from Port 

 Essington and Fiji Islands {H.M.S. '■Herald'), besides others with- 

 out special locality. 



In the lobulation of the carapace and the form of the teeth of the 

 antero-lateral margins, this, species has much the aspect of a Phy- 

 modius, from which genus it is distinguished by the exclusion of the 

 flagellum of the antennse from the inner orbital hiatus, the hiatus, 

 however, usually remaining open. 



The description and figure of Xantho dehaanii, Erauss, seem to 

 apply very well to this species except in one particular only — the 

 legs are not very long as stated by Krauss. The coloration of the 

 chelipede, as he represents it, is exactly what is usual in males I 

 refer to C. areolatus. 



31. Etisodes electra (Eerbst). 



A good series of specimens was obtained at the Seychelles, 4^12 

 fms. (No. 194). 



The synonyms of this variable and widely-distributed species 

 have been given on p. 217. 



32. Cymo andreossii (Audouin). 



A good series of specimens was collected at the Seychelles, 4-12 

 fms. (No. 194). Two of these specimens only have the fingers 

 nearly colourless, the remainder belonging to the variefrjr melano- 

 dactylus of Do Haan, with dark-coloured fingers. 



In the Eeport on the Crustacea collected by the naturalists of the 



