"The collection contains specimens of a crab which resembles Dana's species in all but the following points: The forepart of the carapace derives its roughness, not from minute granules, but from minute dimples. The carapace is a little broader than in Dana's figure. The chelipeds are not entirely "unarmed," for the wrist bears two blunt teeth on the inside. The front and the upper edges of the legs of the last four pairs are finely toothed. The fore edge of the meropodite of the third maxilliped is but slightly hollowed. The length of the carapace is very little more than f of the breadth.

I have placed this species in the genus Chlorodopsis because the fronto-orbital breadth is a little more than half the greatest breadth, and because of the outline of the fore edge of the meropodite of the third maxilliped. The front is not broad enough to justify its being placed in the subgenus Cyclodius, being less than half the breadth of the carapace. In any case the species seems to be a transitional one. The specimens mentioned under the name of this species in the P. Z. S. for 1900 were small individuals of Leptodius sanguineus. Taken on the reef on Male Atoll and dredged in 25 fathoms in South Nilandu Atoll."

(Borrodaile 1903)