dentated, and carapace and chelipedes less distinctly granulated; in
other particulars, however, they closely resemble the other examples
in the Britisb-Museum collection. In all the specimens I have
examined there is a very large subbasal tooth or lobe on_ tbe inner
margin of tbe mobile finger of the hand of the larger chelipede.
Dana records this species from tbe Kingsmill and Society Islands,
and Stimpson from Loo Cboo. I t is evidently a widely distributed
Oriental form.
Since tbe designations lliippellia and Eudora have botb been preoccupied
in zoology (the former by Wiedemann, in 1830, for a genus
of dipterous insects, and the latter by Peron and Lesueur, in 1809,
for a genus of Acalephoi), I have slightly modified tbe former name,
wbicb has so long been used by carciuologists for tbis species of
crab.
35. Ozius (Epixanthus) frontalis, M.-Edw.
Mabe Island, beach (No. 196); two males—one adult, tbe other
very small.
Specimens are in tbe British-Museum collection from Madagascar,
Tamatave {Bev. Deans Cowan); Nicol Bay, N.W. Australia {AI. du
Boiday); Fiji Islands, Ovalau {H.Al.S. ‘ Herald’); Samoa Islands
{Bev. S. J. Whitmee).
The genus Epixanthus can scarcely, I think, be regarded as generically
distinct from Ozius ; but tbe name may be conveniently used
as a snbgeneric designation for tbe species witb broader, more
depressed, and flattened carapace (c/..A. Al.-Edwards, Nouv. Archiv.
Mus. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 240, 18/3).
Of tbe species designated by Adams Panop>ev.s formio *,
there are two specimens in tbe Aluseum collection. Tbe smaller, from
Ligitan, is not to be distinguished from normal specimens of 0 . fro n talis.
Tbe larger, which is an adult male, and is apparently tbe
specimen figured, and therefore the type, has tbe carapace somewhat
narrower and more convex, and tbe first tooth of tbe anterolateral
margin shorter and more distinctly separated by a notch
from tbe outer margin of tbe orbit, wbicb is also notched. On
account of tbis latter character the species, as represented by this
specimen, must, I think, be retained, together with Epixanthus
dentatus (Ad. & AVhite), in the genus (or subgenus) Heteropanope,
in wbicb Stimpson long ago included it (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philad. p. 35, 1858).
36. Eriphia Isevimanus (M.-Edw.)
Two females from tbe beach a t Darros Island (No. 200), and a
small male from tbe Glorioso Islands (No. 220), have been retained
for tbe Collection.
The series in the British Museum includes specimens from tbe
Manritius (Lady F. Cole) ; Aladagascar (Dr. J . E. Gray) and Tamatave
(Pev. Deans Cowan) ; Seychelles (Dr. E. P. Wright) ; India,
Bengal ; Malaysia (Dr. Bleeker) ; Duke of York Island (Pev. G,
Brown) ; Moreton Bay (purchased) ; AYest Hill, Queensland (J. B.
Jukes) ; Canton Eiver (purchased) ; Fiji Islands (H.M.S. ‘Herald ’
and U.S. Exploring Exped.) ; Samoa Islands (Pev. S. J. Whitmee).
The carapace and chelipedes (in dried and spirit-specimens) are
very prettily spotted with red ; but the coloration is often entirely
obliterated.
37. Eriphia lævimanus, var. smitbii, AlacLeay.
Glorioso Islands, from tbe beach and reef at low water, two
females (No. 220) ; Mozambique, between tide-marks, a small
female (No. 227).
I have already remarked upon the specimens of tbis variety in
the Museum coUection *, which is found not only on tbo eastern
coast of Africa and on tbe Alascarene Islands, bnt also in the Indian
and Indo-Malaysian seas eastward, at least, to New Guinea, and,
according to Hilgendorf, at the Tonga Islands.
38. Eriphia scabricula, Dana.
Mozambique, between tide-marks, a male (No. 225) ; Darros
Island, beach, a male (No. 200).
Specimens of tbis species (which is always distinguishable from
small examples of E. loevimanus by tbe narrower front and wider
orbits, tbe triangulate and acute spines of the antero-lateral margins,
and the pubescent and granulated chelipedes) are in the Museum
collection from tbe Mauritius, and Eiji Islands, Cvalau, Totoya
(H.M.S. ‘ Her(dd’), besides others without special locality. The
ambulatory legs are transversely banded witb spotted reddish markings,
which are not discernible in E. lævimanus. Tbe length of tho
carapace in tbe largest specimen examined is only about 8 lines
(17 millim.). Besides several Polynesian localities, it has been recorded
from the Mauritius (A. M.-Edwards), Eouquets (Bichters),
Madagascar (Benz 4" Bichters), the Sooloo Sea (Dana), and Ousima
Island (Stimp>son).
39. Trapezia cymodoce (Herhst).
Of this very common species a large series of specimens was collected
at tbe following localities :—Seychelles, 4 -12 fms. (No. 194) ;
African or Eagle Islands, 10 fms. (No. 184); Darros, 22 fms.
(Nos. 185, 233); EtoUe, 13 fms. (No. 191) ; Marie-Louise, 17 fms.
(No. 186) ; Des Neufs, 15 fms. (No. 187) ; and the Glorioso Islands,
7-10 fms. (No. 219).
In a former paper f I Uave remarked upon tbe synonymy and
distribution of tbis species, and have pointed out tbe characters by
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