1926] Schmitt, Crustaceans Collected by the Congo Expedition D0 
Clibanarius africanus Aurivillius 
Plate IX, Figure 2a; Text Figure 73 
Clibanarius africanus AURIVILLIUS, 1898, Bihang K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 
Stockholm, XXIV, Afd. IV, No. 1, p. 12, Pl. rv, fig. 7. Rarssun, 1900, Proc. U. 8. 
Nat. Mus., XXII, p. 305. Lenz, 1910, ‘Wissen. Ergeb. Deutschen Zentral-Afrika- 
Exped. 1907-1908,’ III, Zool. I, p. 188. Bauss, 1921, ‘Beitr. Kenntnis Meeresfauna 
Westafrikas,’ III, p. 40 (part?). 
Aurivillius’s material came from Cameroon, in the river at Bibundi, and Kitta, 
and Lenz’s from the mouth of the Tschiloango River. Balss lists the species as occur- 
ring at numerous localities ranging from French Guinea and Liberia on the north to 
the French Congo on the south. Though possible, it is not altogether certain that he 
had just the one species represented in his material (see ‘ Remarks” under Clibanarius 
cookz above). 
Fig. 73. Clibanarius africanus Aurivillius, from Banana. 
Lateral aspect of second left ambulatory leg. X 2.5. 
Banana, July 1915, 357, 232 (11 ovig.), 9 juvenile. 
Aurivillius gives the general color of the species as yellowish, brown 
or darker on the exposed, harder parts of the body, with hinder part of 
’ “thorax” erayish yellow. Lenz adds that the darker colored anterior 
hard parts, in alcohol, tend to become greenish. 
The broad dark, transverse bands, alternating with lighter, men- 
tioned by Aurivillius as occurring on the ambulatory legs must refer to 
the dark transverse band occupying about the distal half of the propodal 
joints of the walking legs, except for the extreme tip of that joint, which 
is lighter colored, like the proximal half of the propodus, the dactyls 
and the rest of these legs. 
In some of the specimens there is a faint suggestion of a longitudinal 
band or banding on the outer surfaces of the carpus and merus, and more 
questionably on the proximal half of the propodus and the dactylus. 
For notes on habitat, etc., ef. under C. cookz, p. 54. 
