’s RIJKS MUSEUM VAN NATUURLIJKE HISTORIE — LEIDEN. 215 
1851. 
1852. 
1869. 
1887. 
1887. 
1891. 
1899. 
1900. 
- 2. Sarmatium crassum Dana. 
Sarmatium crassum Dana. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, 1851, 
p. 251 — Upolu (Samoa). 
Sarmatium crassum Dana. U. S. Expl. Exp., Crust., p. 358, pl. 23 
f. 1 — same locality. 
Sesarma germant A. Milne-Edwards. Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, t. 5, 
Bull. p. 28 — Poeloe Condore (South China). 
Sesarma germani de Man. Zool. Jahrb. Syst., Bd. 2 p. 651 — no 
new locality. 
Sarmatium crassum de Man. Zool. Jahrb. Syst., Bd. 2 p. 660 — 
no new locality. 
Sesarma germani de Man. Notes Leyden Museum, v. 13 p. 51 — 
Pacific, description of type-specimen !) of Milne-Edwards. 
Sarmatium crassum Nobili. Ann. mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova, (2) 
t. 20 p. 505 — Siboga (Sumatra). 
Sarmatium crassum Alcock. Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, v. 69 prt. 2 
p- 426 — Nicobars. 
Specimens in the Museum: 
1 ©; Paeitic. 
This small species is characterized by its smooth carapace, by the 
palm of the cheliped being not tuberculate at the outer surface and es- 
pecially by the 6—7 transverse parallel crests near the upper border of 
the palm, in the case of the </. The upper border of the movable finger 
of the © bears four short spines, but there are none in the ©. 
1837. 
1851. 
1853. 
1855. 
_ 1880. 
1892. 
8. Sarmatium curvatum H. Milne-Edwards. 
Sesarma curvata H. Milne-Edwards. Hist. nat. Crust., t. 2 p. 75 
— Senegal. 
Sesarma violacea Herklots. Add. faun. care. Afr. occ., p. 10, pl. 1 
f. 9 — Boutry and Saccondé (Guinea). 
Metagrapsus curvatus H. Milne-Edwards. Ann. Sc. nat., (3) t. 20 
p. 189 — Senegal. 
Metagrapsus curvatus H. Milne-Edwards. Arch. Mus. Paris, t. 7 
p. 160, pl. 10 f. 3 — same locality. 
Sesarma violacea de Man. Notes Leyden Museum, v. 2 p. 81 — 
same locality as given by Herklots. 
Sarmatium violaceum Thallwitz. Abhandl. Mus. Dresden, Bd. 3 
n°, 3 1890—91, p. 40 — Ogowé (West Africa). 
1) This specimen is here recognized to be identical with Sarmatium crassum. 
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