5i 



(Ortmann), Java (Pesta), Singapore (Nobili, de Man, Balss) and from Upolu (Samoa Islands) 

 (Ortmann), while it is still doubtful whether this species does also occur on the coasts of Japan. 



5. Palinurus sp. [prnatus Oliv. ?) von Mart. 



Palinurus sp. {ornatus Oliv.?) E. von Martens, in: Archiv für Naturg. XXXVIII Jahrg., 1872, 



p. 12S. 

 Confer: G. NOBILI, in: Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino, Vol. XVI, N°4i5, 1901, p. 11. 



Upon my request Professor E. Vanhöffen of the Royal Zoological Museum of Berlin has 

 been so kind to compare the small male specimen from Cuba, which, in 1872, was referred by 

 von Martens with some doubt to Panul. ornatus (Fabr.), with the figures of Panul. laevicazida 

 (Latr.), published in 1901 by Moreira and in 191 1 by Gruvel. Prof. Vanhöffen wrote me 

 thereupon that the Cuban specimen did well agree with these figures, that there was no exopod 

 on the 3 rd maxillipeds, that the exopod of the 2 nd pair was furnished with an articulated flagellum 

 and that it seemed therefore quite certain that this specimen must be referred to Panul. laevi- 

 catida (Latr.). I am of the same opinion and wish to add that this species was heretofore 

 only known to occur from Rio de Janeiro to French Guyana. 



6. Pantilirtis ornatus (Fabr.). 



Palinurus ornatus J. C. Fabricius, Suppl. Entom. System. 179S, p. 400. 



Palinurus ornatus H. Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crustacés, II, 1837, p. 296. 



Palinurus brevipes G. Pfeffer, in: Verhandl. Naturvv. Vereins, Hamburg 1880, p. 44 (partim). 



Palinurus ornatus J. G. de Man, in: Zoolog. Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst. IX, 1896, p. 511. 



Palinurus honiartts G. Pfeffer, in: Mittheil. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg, XIV, 1897, p. 13. 



Panulirus hoiuarus G. Nobili, in: Annal. Scienc. Nat. 9e Série, Zool. T. IV, 1906, p. 90. 



Panulirus ornatus A. Gruvel, in: Annales Instit. Océanograph., T. III, Fase. IV, Paris 191 1, 



p. 47 (partim), PI. VI, fig. 2. 

 Panulirus ornatus H. Balss, Ostasiatische Decapoden II, München 1914, p. 78 (partim). 

 Cancer lAstacusj homarus J. F. W. Herbst, Versuch einer Naturg. Krabben u. Krebse, Bd. II, 



1796, p. S4, PI. XXXI, fig. 1. 



Stat. 71. May 10 — June 7. Makassar. Up to 32 m. 1 male of medium size. 

 Postillon-islands. 2 young specimens, presented by Mr. Jacquin of Makassar. 

 Ambon. Reef. 1 young female and 1 still younger individual. 



Though Pfeffer after an examination of the types of Fabricius, preserved in the Museum 

 of Kiel, has clearly demonstrated in 1897 the identity of Panul. ornatus of Fabricius with the 

 Cancer (Astacns) homarus of Herbst, whose description has been published two years before 

 that of Fabricius, I nevertheless prefer, in harmony with Messr. Gruvel and Balss, to use the 

 name of Fabricius, because, already before Herbst, other species have been designated also 

 by the name of homarus. 



The male from Makassar is almost 23 cm. long from the anterior margin of the carapace 

 to the end of the telson, the carapace being 82 mm. long, the abdomen 145 mm. The coloration 

 of this specimen is typical and agrees with the figure of Herbst. The upper surface of carapace 

 ancl abdomen has a verdigris ground-colour; quite anteriorly between the supra-orbital spines 



