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

'614 COLLECTIONS PROM THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN.and others concerning the Podophthalmia and Edriophthalmia of theRed-Sea coasts. In the latter year also was published M. A. Milne-Edwards's enumeration (with descriptions of a few new species) ofthe Crustacea of Eeunion*.In 1868 M, A. Milne-Edwards published an account of theCrustacea collected by M. A, Grandidier at Zanzibar and Madagascar(Cape St, Marief) ; and in the following year, in the thirdvolume of Baron C. von der Dcckcn's Travels ' in East Africaappeared the careful account bj^ Dr. F. Hilgendorf of the Crustaceacollected in that Expedition, to which is appended a veryuseful and complete systematic list, by Dr. E. von Martens, ofall the known Crustaceans of the East- African coasts and islandsadjacent 4l.In 1874 a Eeport appeared by C. Tv. Hoffmann, entitled Sur ' lesCrustaccs et Echinodermes de Madagascar et de I'lle do la Reunion '§,based upon the extensive collections made by the author himself andby MM. Pollen and van Dam, wherein also numerous species areenumerated from the Mauritius.In 1878 the Crustacea of Mozambique were dealt with by Dr. F.Hilgendorf, in the very useful memoir entitled " Die von Hrn. "W.Peters in Mozambique gesammeltcn Crustaceen"|| ; a few speciesfrom the same locality had been previously enumerated by Prof. J.Rianconi in 1869^.In 1879, in the " <strong>Report</strong> of the Naturalists of the British Transitof-VenusExpedition," were enumerated the Crustaceans collectedat the island of Rodriguez, all, except Talitrus guUiveri, Podophthalmia,and nearly all common and widely distributed species**.In 1880 was published the excellent account, by Dr. F. Richters,of the Decapoda in Prof. Mobius's work on the marine fauna of theMauritius and Seychelles ft, to which frequent reference is made inthe following pages. Since the appearance of this work, I havegiven JJ an account of some new or remarkable species collected atthe Mauritius by M. V. de Robillard.In 1881 Drs. H. Lenz and F. Richters, in a memoir entitled"Beitrag zur Krustaceen-Fauna vou Madagascar "§§, enumerated a* Annexe F, Crustaces, in Maillard's Notes sur ' I'lle de la Eeunion.' Paris,8vo (1862).t NouTelles Archives du Museum, iv. p. GO (1868).I Vide Hilgendorf, Crustaceen in V. der Deckeu's Eeisen in Ost-Afrika, iii. (1)p. 1, and von Martens, ;". c. p. 104 (1869).'§ In F. Pollen & D. v. Dam, Eecherches sur la Faune de Madagascar,' &c.(5"' partie). Leyden (1874). 4to.IIMonatsber. der Akad. Wissenscli. Berlin, p. 782 (1878).^ " Specimina zoologica mosambicana," fasc. xvii., in Mem. dell' Accademiadi Bologna, ser. 2, ix. p. 20r> (1869).** Vide E. J. Miers, in Phil. Trans. Eoval Society, elxviii. p. 485 (1879).Mauritius und der Seychellen,' 4to, Berlin (1880).+t Proc. Zool. Soc. pp. 339, 538 (1882) ;p. 10 (1884).§§ Vide Abhandl. Senckenberg. naturf. Gesellsch. Bd. xii. p. 421 (1881).