Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

232 COLLECTIONS FROM MELANESIA.71. Thalamita stimpsonii, A. M.-Edw.A male and female are in Dr. Coppinger's first collection fromPort Molle, obtained, one on the beach f JN'o. 95), and the other onthe coral-rccfd in that harbour. In the second collection is a femalefrom Port Darwin, found on the beach (No. 176).Specimens are in the British-Museum collection from the followingAustralian localities :—Port Curtis {J. Macr/illivray, H.M.S.* Rattlesnake ') ; Torres Straits (J. B. Juices) ; and N. Australiancoast {Dr. J. R. Elsey). There are also specimens from New Guineaand Amboina (Dr. Bleeher's collection), and Sunday Island (J. B.Juketa), besides others without special indication of locality.Eecorded by Mr. Haswell from Port Denison &c.This may perhaps be a mere variety of the following species ;I do not venture to unite the two, since adult examples of T. stimpsoniiseem to be distinguished from adult T. crenata not merely bythe small fourth lateral marginal tooth, but also by the more transversecarapace and more granulated palms of the chelipedes.but72. Thalamita crenata, Eilppell.An adult male is in the collection, from Port Molle, 14 fms.(No. 93).There is also in the British-Museum collection a female from thePercy Islands, off the Queensland coast (J". 3Iacr/iUivra;/, H.M.S.'Rattlesnake ') ; a male from Torres Straits (J. B. Jukes) ; alsofrom the Mauritius (Ladtj F. Cole) ; Natal (F. M. Rayner, H.M.S.'Herald'); Timor Laut {H. O.Forbes); India, Karachi (KarachiMuseum); Philippines (Cuming); the Samoa Islands (Rev. S. J.Whitmee) ; and others without special locality.73. Goniosoma variegatuni.Portunus variegatus, Fahricii(s, FntomohgicB Systematica Supplementnm,p. 304 (1798) ; M.-Echvards, Hist. Nat. ties Crustaces, i.p. 465 (1834).Cancer callianassa, Herhst, Natnrqesch. d. Krabbe7i u. Krebse, iii.Heft 2, p. 45, pi. liv. fig. 7 (1801).Cliarybdis variegatus, De Haan, Crust, in Siebold, Fauna Japonica,pp." 10-42, pi. i. fig. 2 (1835).Charybdis truucatus, De Haan, t, c. p. 65, pi. xviii. fig. 2 (1837), neeFabricius ?Goniosoma callianassa, A. Milne-Edivards, Archives du Museum, x.p. 382.(1861).Goniosoma variegatum, Miers, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 33 (1879).I append a description of the species I suppose to be the variegatusof Fabricius, the synonyma of which are somewhat confused.Carapace somewhat hexagonal in shape, with the postero-lateralangles rounded, pubescent, with the gastric and epibranchial ridges