CRUSTACEA OF THE MERGUI ARCHIPELAGO, 69 
Archipelago. The Leyden Museum contains specimens also from 
Padang, Timor, Xulla-Bessy, Gebeh, Amboina, and Halmahera. 
Tt has also been found on the coast of New Caledonia and on 
many islands of the Pacific Ocean, the Fiji and Samoa Islands, 
and the Paumotu Archipelago; it is, moreover, recorded from the 
Philippines, the Loo-Choo Islands, and even from the Japanese 
seas (Stimpson). 
Genus Traprzia, Latr. 
45. TRAPEZIA CyMODOCE, Herbst. 
Cancer cymodoce, Herbst, Krabben und Krebse, iu. pl. li. fig. 5. 
Trapezia dentata, Alph. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. du Muséum Hist. 
Nat. 1873, t. ix. p. 261. 
Trapezia cymodoce, Miers, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, 5th ser. vol. ii. 
p. 409. 
Trapezia cymodoce, de Man, Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. ii. 
ps 177. 
Two specimens were collected, one at Elphinstone Island and 
one at King Island. : 
Trapezia cymodoce has been collected in the Red Sea (Gulf of 
Suez, Djeddah), at Ceylon, in the Malayan Archipelago (Am- 
boina, Manipa, Xulla-Bessy), the Philippine Islands, and finally 
on the coasts of New Caledonia, Australasia, the Fiji Islands, and 
the Marquesas group. 
Family Portunips. 
Genus Neptunus, de Haan. 
46. Neprunus PELAGICusS, Linné. 
Cancer pelagicus, Linné, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 434. 
Portunus pelagicus, Fabricius, Suppl. Entom. Syst. p. 367. 
Lupa pelagica, H. Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crustacés, t. i. p. 450. 
Neptunus pelagicus, Alph. Milne-Edwards, Etudes Zoolog. sur les 
Portuniens récents, in Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 1861, 
t. x. p. 320. 
A single young maie specimen was collected at Elphinstone 
island. 
Neptunus pelagicus is distributed throughout the whole Inds- 
Pacific region from the Red Sea and Zanzibar as far as Tahiti. 
47. Neprunus GuaDiator, Fabr. 
Portunus gladiator, Fabricius, Suppl. Entom. p. 368. 
Lupa gladiator, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crustacés, t. i. p. 456. 
