REPORT OR THE BRACHYURA. 
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the carapace and chelipedes are of a uniform reddish or yellowish-brown. The 
ambulatory legs, but not the chelipedes, are covered with small, distinct, red or brownish 
spots. 
In RiippelTs specimens from the Red Sea, it would appear from the diagnosis, which 
is, however, very short, that all the legs are covered with small dark brown spots. 
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Lines. 
Millims. 
Length of carapace, nearly, 
4 
8 
Breadth of carapace, about 
10 
Trapezia areolata, var. inermis, A. Milne Edwards. 
Trapezia areolata, var. inermis, A. Milne Edwards, Rouv. Archiv. Mils. Hist. Rat., vol. ix. 
p. 259, pi. x. fig. 6, 1873. 
Kandavu, Fiji Islands (a female with ova). 
In this form, distinct areolse, formed of pink reticulating lines, exist on the dorsal 
surface of the carapace and on the chelipedes, but not on the ambulatory legs ; the 
denticules of the front and the lateral marginal teeth of the carapace are blunt in the 
adult. 
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Length of carapace, about 
Breadth of carapace, nearly 
Length of a chelipede, 
Length of first ambulatory leg, 
Lines. Millims. 
4 9 
5 10 
8 16-5 
5 10-5 
Trapezia rufopunctata (Herbst). 
Cancer rufopunctatus, Herbst, Raturgesch. der Krabben u. Krebse, vol. iii. (1) p. 54, pi. xlvii. 
fig. 6, 1799. 
Trapezia rufopunctata, Latreille, Encycl. Meth. Hist. Rat., vol. x. p. 695, 1825. 
„ ,, A. Milne Edwards, Rouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Rat., vol. ix. p. 258, 1873, 
et synonyma, except Trapezia flavopunctata, Eydoux and Souleyet. 
,, ,, Miers, Crust, in Rep. Zool. Coll. H.M.S. “Alert,” p. 536, 1884. 
Samboangan, reefs (10 fathoms) an adult male and female. 
These specimens have the frontal lobes deeply cut, as in the figure of Herbst, but 
the reddish spots which cover the body and legs are somewhat larger. In the female the 
spots of the smaller (right) chelipede are much larger and fewer in number than those of 
the left chelipede, which is of interest as showing how little reliance is to be placed upon 
the number and size of these spots for distinguishing the species or varieties. 1 
1 In this species, the inferior margins of the palms of the chelipedes are sometimes granulated as in Trapezia 
flavopunctata, Eydoux and Souleyet, but Trapezia flavopunctata is distinguished (if the figure is to be trusted) by the 
coloration of the carapace, which is reticulated (not spotted), with red lines which circumscribe yellow spots. 
