68 DR. J. G. DE MAN ON THE PODOPHTHALMOUS 
The ambulatory legs are tolerably slender, resembling those of 
Pilumnus cursor, A. M.-Edw., and they are slightly hairy. 
In the larger specimen, the male, the distance between the last 
antero-lateral teeth measures only 42 millim., the cephalothorax 
being 82 millim. long. According to Dana the carapace of the 
adult is nearly 3’” broad. 
This little crustacean has hitherto only been recorded from the 
Strait of Balabac. 
Genus Ertputa, Latr. 
44. ERIPHIA LEVIMANA, Latr. 
Eriphia levimana, Latreille, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust. t. 1. 
p. 427; Heller, Crustaceen der Novara-Reise, p. 24; Stimpson, l. c. p. 35; 
Alph. Milne- Edwards, l. c. p. 255. 
See also:—Miers, On Malaysian Crustacea, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1880, 5th ser. vol. v. p. 237; and Hilgendorf, Monatsber. k. Akad. d. 
Wiss. Berlin, Nov. 1878, p. 797. 
Ten fine specimens of this species are in the Collection, three 
very young males and seven adult females; four of them were 
collected at Sullivan Island, four at Owen Island, one at King 
Island, and one at Elphinstone Island. 
In all the adult females the outer surface of the wrist and 
of the hands in both chelipedes is wholly smooth and without 
tubercles, so that they are typical representatives of this species ; 
but in the smallest male specimen from Owen Island, the cara- 
pace of which is only 10 millim. broad, the outer surface of both 
chelipedes is covered with crowded acute tubercles. These 
tubercles, however, have already begun to disappear in a male a 
little larger from the same locality, which has a carapace 14 millim. 
broad; the tubercles in this specimen only occur on the outer 
surface of the smaller hand, and are even much less developed 
than in the smallest male individual. I conclude, therefore, that 
very young male specimens of H. levimana present this tuber- 
culation, which, however, soon disappears. 
The Collection in the Leyden Museum contains two specimens 
from the Moluccas and one from Amoy, in which the outer 
surface of the larger hand is smooth, but that of the smaller 
tuberculated. 
Eriphia levimana, the type species, the chelipedes of which 
are wholly smooth, has been collected on the coasts of Mozambique 
and Natal, at Mauritius the Nicobar Islands, and the Malayan 
