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dentated, and Carapace and ohelipedes less distinctly granulated ; in 

 other particulars, to-weyer, they closely resemble the other examples 

 in the British- Museum coUection. In all the specimens I have 

 examined there is a very large subbasal tooth or lobe on the inner 

 margin of the mobile finger of the hand of the larger chelipede. 



Dana records this species from the KingsmiU and Society Islands, 

 and Stimpson from Loo Choo. It is evidently a widely distributed 

 Oriental form. ■ 



Since the designa,tions Buppellia and Budora have both been pre- 

 occupied in zoology (the former by Wiedemann, in 1830, for a genus 

 of dipterous insects, and the latter by Peron and Lesueur, in 1809, 

 for a genus of Acalephoe), I have shgbtly modified the former name, 

 vrhich has so long been used by carcinologists for this species of 

 crab. 



35. Ozius (Epixanthus) frontalis, M.-Edw. 



Mahe Island, beach (No. 196) ; two males — one adult, the other 

 very small. 



Specimens are in the British-Museum collection from Madagascar, 

 Tamatave (^Bev. Beans Cowan) ; Mcol Bay, N.'W. Australia (M. du 

 Bmlay) ; Fiji Islands, Ovalau (H.M.S. ' Herald ') ; Samoa Islands 

 (iSw. is. J. Whitmee). 



The genus Epixanthus can scarcely, I think, be regarded as gene- 

 tically distinct from Ozius ; but the name may be conveniently used 

 as a subgeneric designation for the species with broader, more 

 depressed, and flattened carapace {cf. A. M.-Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. 

 Mus. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 240, 1873). 



Of the species designated by Adams and White Panopev.s formio *, 

 there are two specimens in the Museum coUection. The smaller, from 

 Ligitan, is not to be distinguished from normal specimens of 0. fron- 

 talis. The larger, which is an adult male, and is apparently the 

 specimen figured, and therefore the type, has the carapace some- 

 what narrower and more convex, and the first tooth of the antero- 

 lateral margin shorter and more distinctly separated by a notch 

 from the outer margin of the orbit, which is also notched. On 

 account of this latter character the species, as represented by this 

 specimen, must, I think, be retained, together with Episcanthus 

 dentatus (Ad. & White), in the genus (or subgenus) Heteropanope, 

 in which Stimpson long ago included it (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 PhHad. p. 35, 1858). 



36. Eriphia laevimamis {M,-Edw.) 



Two females from the beach at Darros Island (No. 200), and a 

 small male from the Glorioso Islands (No. 220), have been retained 

 for thje Collection. 



The series in the British Museum includes specimens from the 

 Mauritius {Lady F. Cole) ; Madagascar {Br. J. E. Gray) and Tama- 



* Zoology of ' Samarang,' Oruetaoea, p. 43, pi. ix. fig. 1 (1848). 



