Chlorodopsis melanochira A. Milne-Edwards.

Chlorodopis melanochirus A. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Archiv. Mus., 9, p. 228, pl. 8, fig. 5, 1873; Haswell, Cat. Aust. Crust., p. 55, 1882. Chlorodopsis melanochira Alcock, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 67, p. 168, 1898.

Numerous specimens from Coral Bay, Sunday Island, and from Meyer Island.

These agree very closely with the descriptions and figures given by Milne-Edwards and Alcock, except that the dark coloration of the fixed finger does not extend along the lower border of the hand. In this character they resemble C. melanodactylus, but they distinctly differ from that species in having the antero-lateral margin “divided into four lobes, each of which is crowned with several spinules.”

The species is known from the Andamans, the coasts of Australia, and from New Caledonia.