1 



9 



27.5 



2 3 



9 d 



26.5 30.3 



4 

 24.3 



11.5 



2.75 



11.— 12.5 



2.75 — 



10.— 



15.5 



15.30 — 



— 



13.5 



13.— — 



12.— 



8.— 



7.75 — 



6.— 



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M. transversus has been found in the Red Sea (Massowah), at Pondichéry 

 and at the coast of Sumatra (Brandewijnsbay near Padang). The Leiden 

 specimens (both females) were collected at the north point of Sumatra 

 (Poeloe Weh, Sabang bay), by the late Dr. G. A. J. v. d. Sande, in July 1901. 



I give here the dimensions of some specimens in mm. 



Distance between external orbital angles 



Length of carapace 



Least breadth of front 



Length of eye-stalks 



Length of carpo- and j of penultimate pair of legs 13.5 

 propodite together ( of last pair of legs . 

 1 — 2 are the Leiden Museum specimens, 3 is the typical specimen 

 of the Paris Museum, measured by de Man, 4 is the specimen collected 

 by Weber near Padang. 



M. telescopicus. (Owen) (PI. V, Fig. 2). 



1839. Gelasimus telescopicus Owen. Zool. Capt. Beechey's Yoy. „Blossom", 



p. 78. pi. 24 f. 1 (Sandwich-isles). 

 1839. M. compressipes Randall. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, v. 8 



p. 123 (Sandwich-isles). 

 1841. „ podophthalmus Souleyet. Yoy. „Bonite", t. 1 p. 241, Crust, pi. 3 



f. 6 — 7 (Sandwich-isles). 

 1848. „ Verreauxi H. Milne-Edwards. Ann. Sc. nat., sér. 3, Zool., t. 9 



p. 358 (Australia). 

 1850. „ compressipes Gibbes. Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sc, 1850, p. 180 (Pacific). 

 1852. „ Verreauxi H. Milne-Edwards. Ann. Sc. nat., sér. 3, Zool., t. 18 



p. 155, pi. 4 f. 25 (Australia). 

 1852. „ podophthalmus H. Milne-Edwards. Ann. Sc. nat., sér. 3, Zool., 



t. 18 p. 155 (Sandwich-isles). 

 1852. „ telescopius H. Milne-Edwards. Ann. Sc. nat., sér. 3, Zool., t. 18 



p. 155 (no new record). 

 1852. „ telescopicus Dana. Crust. U. S. Expl. Exp., v. 1 p. 314 (Sand- 

 wich-isles). 

 1858. „ telescopicus Stimpson. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, v. 10 p. 97 



(Loo-Choo-isles). 

 1865. „ Verreauxi Hess. Arch. Naturgesch. Jahrg. 31. 1, p. 142 and 171 



(Australia). 

 1880. „ Verreauxi de Man. Notes Leyden Museum, v. 2 p. 184 (Red Sea). 

 1882. „ podophthalmus Haswell. Cat. Austral. Crust., p. 88 (Holborn Island). 



