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CLIBANARIUS VULGARIS, Dana. 



1791. Cancer clibanarius, Herbst, Krabben u. Krebse, vol. ii., pt. 1, 



p. 20, pi. 23, fig. 1. 

 1852. Clibanarius vulgaris, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., Crust., vol. xiii., 



p. 462. 

 1905. Clibanarius clibanarius, Alcock, Indian Decap. Crust., Ano- 



mura, p. 43, pi. 4, fig. 1. 



In naming the species Alcock follows Hilgendorf, Henderson, and 

 Miss Eathbun. His key to the Indian species of the genus distin- 

 guishes the present by the following combination of characters : 

 finger of the third perasopods decidedly longer than the sixth joint ; 

 eye-stalks much shorter than the peduncles of the first antennae ; 

 inner lower border of the fourth joint in the first perseopods (the 

 chelipeds) simply serrulate. 



The Durban Museum specimen is a small one, 50 mm. in length. 

 It agrees well with Colonel Alcock's full account of the species. 



Locality. Durban. 



GEN. PAGUBUS, Fabricius, sensu restricto. 

 1905. Pagurus, Alcock, Indian Decap. Crust., Anomura, p. 78. 



PAGURUS MEGISTOS (Herbst). 



1804. Cancer megistos, Herbst, Naturg. Krabben u. Krebse, vol. iii., 



pt. 4, p. 23, pi. 61, fig. 1. 



1811. Pagurus megistos, Olivier, Encycl. Method., vol. viii., p. 639. 

 1811. Pagurus punctulatus, Olivier, Encycl. Meth., vol. viii., p. 641 ; 



Atlas (1818), pi. 312, fig. 1. 



1847. Pagurus megistos, White, List of Crust, in Brit. Mus., p. 60. 

 1905. Pagurus punctulatus, Alcock, Indian Decap. Crust., Anomura, 



p. 81, pi. 8, fig. 1. 

 1907. Dardanus megistos, M. J. Eathbun, notes to Stimpson's North 



Pacific Crust., Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. xlix., p. 205- 



A very full synonymy, excellent description and figure, are sup- 

 plied in Alcock's work. In the Museum specimen from Durban the 

 eye-stalks are purplish blue, and the long bristles which beset the 

 chelipeds and walking-legs are, after years in spirit, still a rich red. 

 The numerous ocellate markings are also conspicuous. 



The species is interesting in connexion with that eastern ingenuity 

 which appears to have imposed upon Herbst, or his draughtsman, to 

 give this fine Pagurid a broad symmetrical tail-fan. The handsome 



