New western Pacific records of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, with descriptions of new species of Homolochunia Doflein, 1904, and Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) Author Forges, Bertrand Richer De Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BPA 5, Nouméa cedex, New Caledonia. E-mail: richer @ noumea. ird. nc Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore. E-mail: peterng @ nus. edu. sg Author Ng, Peter K. L. text Zootaxa 2008 2008-12-19 1967 1 35 journal article 1175­5334 Homolochunia valdiviae Doflein, 1904 ( Figs. 3A, B , 4A , 5A, B , 6A ) Homolochunia valdiviae Doflein, 1904: 22 , pl. 1, fig. 1–2, pl. 9, fig. 1–8, pl. 10, fig. 1–2, pl. 43, fig. 1, pl. 49, fig. 3, pl. 51, fig. 2. Homolochunia valdiviae – Ihle 1913: 65 , fig. 33. — Gordon 1950: 224 , fig. 18A–C. — Griffin & Brown 1976: 250 . — Kensley 1981a: 60 . — Kensley 1981b: 37 . — Guinot & Richer de Forges 1981: 549 , fig. 4K, 6A1, A2, pl. 5, fig. 1, 1a–d. — Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995: 430 : fig. 50c–d, 51a–c. — Ng et al. 2008: 40 . Material examined. Indonesia : Mollucas , KARUBAR cruise, stn. CC 21, 5°14’S 133°00’E , 688–694 m , 25 October 1991 : 1 male (24.6 x 18.4 mm ) ( MNHN-B 22486 ) . Madagascar : stn. 37, 12°51’S 48°06.3’E , 675–705 m , coll. A. Crosnier , 14 December 1972 : 1 male (33.8 x 24.1 mm ) ( MNHN-B 7019 ) . Remarks. Homolochunia valdiviae was described from off east Africa ( Doflein 1904 ). It was later recorded from Madagascar , Seychelles and Indonesia ( Ihle 1913 ; Gordon 1950 ; Griffin & Brown 1976 ; Kensley 1981a , b). Guinot & Richer de Forges (1995) , in their revision of the family, recognised specimens identified as this species from Japan ( Sakai 1955 ; Miyake 1983 ; Nagai 1994 ) as a new species, H. gadaletae Richer de Forges & Guinot, 1995 . These two species are easily differentiated by the shape of the subcheliform P5 ( H. valdiviae : Fig. 6A; H . gadaletae: Fig 6C ). This species lives on muddy bottoms, between 400 and 1000 m , depths which are relatively deeper than that reported for H. gadaletae which is 150 to 250 m .