56 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History [Vol. LIII 
Diocenes Dana 
Diogenes Dana, 1852, ‘Crust. U. S. Expl. Exped.,’ Pt. 1, p. 438. 
Diogenes denticulatus Chevreux and Bouvier 
Text Figure 74 
Diogenes denticulatus CHEVREUX AND Bouvier, 1891, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 
XVI, p. 254; 1892, Mém. Soc. Zool. France, V, p. 122, Pl. 1m, figs. 16-20. Rarusun, 
1900, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., XXII, p. 307. 
West African Coast from Rufisque, Senegal (type-locality) and the mouth of the 
Mesurado River, Monrovia (Rathbun). 
Banana, August 1915, 2 small 2, in rather poor condition, the one 
lacking both hands and the other the abdomen. The carapace of the 
larger specimen measures 5 mm: long, of the smaller 3.2 mm. 
Fig. 74. Diogenes denticulatus Chevreux and Bouvier, from Banana. 
Dorsal view of anterior region of the two small females. X about 6.5. 
I am inclined to be very doubtful about Balss’s suggestion that D. 
denticulatus might be a variety of D. pugilator Roux. In addition to the 
typical form, there are now not less than five varieties of that species 
listed which I should not care to Separate from one another on the 
rather meager characterizations on which they are based. To add Stimp- 
son’s brevicristatus and D. denticulatus Chevreux and Bouvier to the 
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11921, ‘Beitr. Kenntnis Meeresfauna Westafrikas,’ III, p. 41 e¢ seq. 
