266 DR. J. G. DE MAN ON THE PODOPHTHALMOUS 
margin of the palm 54 willim., and the fingers 13 millim.; in this 
specimen the fingers therefore are more than twice as long as 
the palm. 
The joints of the carpus of the legs of the second pair are 
respectively 34, 32, 17, 13, and 14 millim. long; the second 
joint therefore is the longest of all, and even a little longer than 
the first. This fact is clearly recognizable in the figure in the 
‘Fauna Japonica.’ Mr. de Haan was probably right in identi- 
fving his specimens with the species of Fabricius, the diagnosis 
of the latter agreeing also perfectly with this specimen. 
A. rapa is a rather rare species, inhabiting the Indian Ocean, 
and the seas of China (Stimpson) and Japan (de Haan). 
149, AtpHeus Epwarpst, Aud. 
Athanasus Edwardsii, <Audouin, LExplication planches de Savigny, 
Description de? Egypte, Atlas, pl. x. fig. 1. 
Alpheus avarus, de Haan (nec Fabricius), Crustacea, Fauna Japonica, 
p. 179, pl. xlv. fig. 3 (Alpheus bis-incisus on plaie). 
Alpheus crassimanus, JTeller, Crustaceen der Novara- Reise. 8S. 107, 
pl. x. fig. 2, var. 
Alpheus Edwardsu, Miers, Report on the Zoological Collections made 
in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘ Alert,’ 1884. 
p. 284 (with all the synonyms there recorded). 
No fewer than thirty-five specimens of different size were 
collected, both males and females, namely, twenty specimens at 
Owen Island, ten in King Island Bay, four young individuals 
at Elphinstone Island, and one young specimen at Sullivan 
Island. 
Mr. Miers deserves the thanks of carcinologists for having 
elucidated the synonymy of this almost cosmopolitan species, and 
I perfectly agree with him in the opinions he has expressed. 
I therefore not only regard A. avarus, de Haan, A. strenuwus, 
Dana, and A. leviusculus, Dana, as identical with Savigny’s spe- 
cies, discovered in the Red Sea, but also with Heller’s A. erassi- 
manus, described in the ‘ Novara Reise.’ * 
* Dr. Kossmann, when referring Red-Sea specimens to A. crasstmanus, 
observes that the hands of his specimens did not perfectly agree with Heller’s 
figure. This may be easily explained by the fact that in the figure of the 
‘Novara-Reise’ the smaller hand has been figured, whereas Dr. Kossmann 
erroneously regarded it as the larger (Kossmann, Zoolog. Ergebnisse einer Reise 
nach dem Rothen Meere, p. 82). 
