AUSTRALIAN MALACOSTKACA. 155 



a large quantity of long yellow hairs. Colour red mixed with 

 yellow. [JC-JR] 

 Port Jackson. 



Genus Pagurus, M.-Edw. 



Front straight in the middle. Ophthalmic segment exposed, 

 with a mobile scale. Eye peduncles stout, and usually con- 

 stricted in the middle, with the basal scale short. External 

 maxillipedes approximated at the base. Anterior legs unequal, 

 the left the largest, fingers opening vertically, with corneous 

 tips, more or less spoon-excavate. Ambulatory legs with the 

 coxa? approximated at the base, the fourth pair chelate. Abdomen 

 soft, unsymmetrical, of the male without genital appendages. 



292. Pagurus punctulatus. A.M. 



Pagurus punctulatus, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., ii., 

 p. 222. 



Ocular peduncles thick, cylindrical, and rather long, but 

 passing very little beyond the peduncle of the external antenna?, 

 shorter than the peduncle of the internal antenna?, and much 

 shorter than the anterior border of the carapace ; cornea small, 

 not occupying quarter of the length of the peduncle. Spinif orm 

 palpi of the external antenna? small. Anterior legs dilated, 

 very unequal (the left very thick), and covered with strong 

 pointed spines ornamented at their base with bundles of long 

 stiff hairs. Second pair of legs nearly cylindrical, and orna- 

 mented with a multitude of stiff hairs, at the base of each of 

 which are two pointed spines. Abdomen with four broad 

 transverse plates, and with four appendages, which in the male 

 are simple and very small, and in the female (with the exception 

 of the last) stout and provided with three well-developed rami. 

 General colour, orange red with ocellated white spots, bordered 

 with brown or black. \_M.-EP\ 



Australia. Occurs also widely distributed in the Red Sea, 

 Indian and Pacific Oceans. 



293. Pagurus pedunculatus. 



Cancer pedunculatus, Herbst. 



Pagurus pedunculatus, Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), v., 

 p. 374 (1880). 



