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and otliOTS concerning (ho rodopliMialmia and Edrio]ihtlinlinia, of (ho
l\od-8ca coasts, lu tho latter year also Avas published Id. A. IMilne-
Edwards's enumeration (with descriptions of a foAV ncAV species) of
tbe Crustaeea of llenniou*.
in 1868 iNl. A. Milne-Edwards pnldisbed an account of tho
Cnistaeea collected by ^l. A. Crandidier at Zanzibar and ^Mada-
gascar (Cape St. Alariet): and in (he following' year, in (lie third
A'obnne of Baron C. von der Decken’s ‘Travels in East A lric a ’
appeared the careful account hy Dr. E. Hilgendorf of tho Crustacea
eolleeted in th at Expedition, to Avliich is appcndod a A'cry
useful aud complete systematic list, hy Dr. E. von ]\tartcns, of
all tbe known Crustaceans of the East-Airican coasts and islands
adjacent]:.
'in 1874 a Eeport appeared by C. K. Itofi’mann, entitled ‘ Sur les
Crustacés et Eebinodermes de ÏMadagascar et de ITlc de la Eéunion’§,
based upon tbe extensiA'e collections made by the author himself and
by ÏMM. Pollen and van Dam, Avbcrcin also numerous species are
enumerated from tbe Mauritius.
In 1878 tbe Cnistaeea of Mozambique were dealt witb bj’ Dr. E.
Hilgendorf, in the very useful memoir entitled “ Die von Hrn. W.
Peters in Moçamhique gesammelten Crnstacecn” || ; a fcAV species
from tbe same locality bad been previously enumerated by Prof. J.
Biauconiin 1869
In 1879. in the “ Eeport of tbe Naturalists of the British Transit-
of-Ycnus Expedition,” were enumerated the Crustaceans collected
at tbe island of Eodriguez, all, except Talitrus gulUveri, Podo-
pbtbalmia. and nearly all common and widely distributed species**.
In 1880 was published tbe excellent account, by Dr. E. Eichters,
of the Decapoda in Prof. Mobius’s work on the marine fauna of the
Mauritius aud Seycbellestt, to which frequent reference is made in
tbe following pages. Since tbe appearance of tbis work, I have
given i i an account of some new or remarkable species collected at
tbe Mauritius by M. T. de Eobillai'd.
In 1881 Drs. H. Lenz and F. Eichters, in a memoir entitled
“ Beitrag zur Krustaceen-Eauna von Madagascar ” §§, enumerated a
* Annexe F, Crustacés, in Maillard’s ‘Notes sur l’Ile de la Eéunion.’ Paris,
8x0 (1862).
+ Nouvelles Archives du Muséum, iv. p. 69 (1868).
] Vide Hilgendorf, Crustaceen lu Y. der Decken’s Eeisen iu Ost-Afrika, iii. (1)
p. 1. and von Martens, t. c. p. 104 (1869).
§ In F. Pollen & D. v. Dam, ‘Eecherches sur la Faune de Madagascar,’ &c.
(5' partie). Leyden (1874). 4to.
Monatsber. der Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, p. 782 (1878).
* “ Specimina zoologica mosambicana,” fasc. xvii., in Mem. dell’ Accademia
di Bologna, ser. 2. is. p. 20.5 (1869).
** Vide V. J. Miers, in Phil. Trans. Eoyal Society, clxviii. p. 485 (1879).
+t Eichters. Decapoda in Mobius’s ‘ Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel
Mauritius und der Seychellen,’ 4to, Berlin (1880).
E Proc. Zool. Soc. pp. 339, 538 (1882) ; p. 10 (1884).
§§■ Vidx Abhandl. Senckenberg. naturf. Gesellsch, Bd. xii. p. 421 (1881).
ccriain number of Decapoda from Madagascar; among them aro
ceri ain s])ccies now to tlio Madagascar fauna.
I may reCe.r, iu conc]u.sion, to Dr. E. Kossmann’s elaborate account
of tlio Malaeostraca (Jirachgura and Ànom,uru) in tho yet iricom-
jilcto account of his .lixjiloration of tho coa.st,s of t-ho Eed 8ca*,
wliercin tho jirincijilc of uniting allied speciesis carried to a perhaps
inconvenient degree, and some modilicatidn.s in the classification of
genera and species are jiroyioscd which aro of doubtful value to tho
systematist, but which conl.ains much important and useful matter
relating to tho Crustacean fauna of tho Eed Sea. In this work
I'requcnt roforenco is made to a publication (in Etissian, and with
Evissian title) hy Dr. Paulson, which appeared at Kicw in 1875, hut
which I have never sc en t, and which I believe has been quoted by
no oilier carcinologist.
List of the Localities.
S e y c h e l l e s .
4-12 fms., coral and sand, March 1882 (No. 194).
Bird Island, December 1881 (No. 210).
Mah6 I.sland, beach, March 1882 (No. 196).
A m i r a n t e G r o u p .
African Island. Beach, December 1881 (No. 210).
African or Eagle Islands. 10 fms., sand and coral, March 1882
(No. 184).
Eagle Island. Beach, December 1881 (No. 210).
Darros Island. Beach, March 1882 (Nos. 199, 200) ; 22 fms., sand and
coral, March 1882 (Nos. 185, 233).
Poivre Island. Beach, March 1882 (No. 198).
Poivre Island and He des Eoches. 13-20 fms., sand and mud, March
1882 (No. 183).
He des Eocbes. Beach, December 1881 (No. 210).
Etoile Island. 13 fms., coral, April 1882 (No. 191).
Marie-Houise Island. 17 fms., coral, April 1882 (Nos. 186, 190).
He des Neufs. 15 fms., dead coral, April 1882 (No. 187).
PRO v inEN C E G r o u p .
Providence Island. Beach, December 1881 (No. 210); 19 fms., coral,
April 1882 (No. 217).
Providence Eeef. 24 fms., sand and dead coral, April 1882 (No. 215).
Cerf Islands. 10.fms., sand, April 1882 (No. 232).
* ‘ Zoologische Ergebnisse einer . . . Eeise in die Küstengebiete des rothen
Meeres’ (erste u. zweite Hälften), 4to, Leipzig (1877 and 1880).
t This title, as translated for me by Mr. H. B. Wilson, lately of the Department
of Printed Book,s in the British Museum, signifies “ Eesearohes upon
the Crustacea of the Eed Sea.”
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