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THE JOURNAL 
OF 
THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 
Report on the Podophthalmous Crustacea of the Mergui Archi- 
pelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, 
Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of 
the Museum. By Dr. J. G. pe Man, of Middleburg, 
Netherlands. (Communicated by Dr. Jonn ANDERSON, 
FE.R.S., F.L.S.) 
[Read 17th June, 1886. ] 
(Puates I.-XTX.) 
THE Crustacea described in the following pages are mostly 
littoral species. The Collection contains no fewer than 166 
species, 38 of which are new to science, z.e. nearly a fourth of 
the whole number. They are represented by about 1060 speci- 
mens, in an excellent state of preservation. 118 species are 
new to the Fauna of the Bay of Bengal (including Ceylon, the 
Nicobar Islands, and Singapore), only 48 species in the Collec- 
tion having been previously recorded from that part of the 
Indian Ocean. These numbers are highly surprising, as the 
Bay of Bengal has been explored, years ago, by many naturalists. 
Large carcinological collections were made in former times by 
French naturalists on the coast of Coromandel and at Ceylon, 
and a still larger number of species were collected, in the 
years 1857-59, by the famous ‘ Novara’ Expedition, at the same 
localities and especially at the Nicobar Islands. In the Report 
published in 1865, by Prof. Heller on the Decapoda and 
Stomatopoda collected during that expedition, no less than 
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