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the anterior pair, but no trace of any spine behind the right-hand 

 member. 



The third maxillipeds have the characteristic short exopod, without 

 flagellum. The pleon segments have no interrupted furrows. The 

 free lateral portions of the first four segments are denticulate above, 

 and each forms a strong backward curving apical tooth. The fifth 

 peraeopods have the chela-forming processes on the distal end of the 

 sixth joint and base of the finger, which are characteristic of the 

 female. 



The length of the specimen is 210 mm. from the front to the end 

 of telson. It is supposed to have come from the Agulhas Bank. 



PANULIRUS BURGERI (de Haan). 

 1841. Palinurus biirgeri, de Haan, Crust. Japon., decas quinta, 



pp. 157, 159, 238, pis. 43 and 44, fig. 1. 

 1866. Palinurus burgeri, Heller, Novara-Keise Crust., p. 95. 



1891. Scnex biirgeri, Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., vol. vi., p. 32. 



1892. Palhiiirufi burgeri, de Man, in Weber's Zool. Ergebn. Niederl. 



Ost-Indien, vol. ii., p. 354. 



1897. Pannlii'iis b/irgrn'., Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., vol. x., p. 268. 

 1905. Panulims burgeri, Bouvier, Bull. Mus. Oceanogr. Monaco, 



No. 29, p. 4. 



The modified vowel in biirgeri is used on deHaan's plate, which is 

 perhaps earlier than the text, and is also found in the index, though 

 in the text itself of the description the form is burgeri. Dr. de Man 

 calls attention to the circumstance that Heller (loc. cit.) and Alphonse 

 Milne-Edwards (Nouv. Arch. Mus., vol. iv., p. 89) describe the trans- 

 verse furrows on the pleon segments of this species as interrupted in 

 the middle, which according to de Haan is not the case, although 

 in the specimen from Makassar de Man found some interruption on 

 the second and third segments and an indication of it on the fourth 

 segment. One of the marks which de Haan uses for distinguishing 

 this species from P. dasypus, Latreille, is the character that in the 

 latter the furrows are interrupted, while in P. burgeri they are con- 

 tinuous. Heller uses the same distinction, but evidently by a slip of 

 the pen has transposed the characters. 



The South African specimen of this rare and beautiful species shows, 

 I think, all the requisite characters for its identification. The third 

 maxillipeds are without exopod. The exopod of the second maxilli- 

 peds is without any distinguishable flagellum. The second and third 

 joints of these maxillipeds are so closely united that the place of 

 origin of the exopod is only with difficulty made out, and its appear- 



