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of the single specimen from Java, upon which this variety was founded, and it contains nothing 

 about the maxillipeds, while even the length has not been indicated. I therefore took the 

 liberty to apply to Dr. O. Pesta of the K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum of Vienna, who 

 kindly wrote me that a type specimen of this variety, collected by the Novara- 

 Expedition, does not exist in the collections of the Museum. Dr. Pesta ran 

 also over the old registers and catalogues of the Novara-Expedition, which in general seem 

 to be very accurate, but he did not find this variety mentioned; he informed me that in Heller's 

 great work of 1865, not only Crustacea, collected by the "Novara", have been described, but 

 also specimens of other origin, a fact already often observed by him, so that the type of 

 Pal. ornatus var. decoratus will perhaps once prove to be in Innsbrück or elsewhere. He had 

 just finished the determination of the Palinuridae preserved in the Museum of Vienna; among 

 the 1 1 specimens of Panul. ornatus (Fabr.) three adult females, respectively from Batavia, 

 Sumatra and the Red Sea, were referred by Pesta to the variety decoratus. In all these 

 specimens now, thus also in the three of the variety, there is no exopod on the 3 rd maxillipeds, 

 while the exopod of those of the 2 nd pair, hardly reaching the distal end of the merus, bears 

 no fiagellum, but only a tuft of hair at the distal extremity. This fact renders the question 

 again doubtful, for both by Gruvel and by me the variety decoratus of Heller is regarded 

 as identical with Panul. tacniatus (Lam.), while Panul. taeniatus (Lam.) is identical with 

 Panul. versicolor (Latr.), in which the exopod of the 2 nd maxillipeds bears a very small 

 fiagellum that is not articulate. 



8. Panulirus ornatus (Fabr.), var. lacvis Lanchester. 



Senex ornatus Fabr., var. nov. laevis W. F. Lanchester, in: Proc. Zoolog. Soc. London, 



1901, p. 557. 



After having compared this description with the adult specimens of Panul. versicolor 

 (Latr.) from Ternate and Simalur, I come to the conclusion that also this variety has been 

 established upon a quite adult specimen of Panul. versicolor (Latr.). The three only species 

 that can be taken into consideration, are Panul. polyphagus (Herbst), Panul. ornatus (Fabr.) 

 and Panul. versicolor (Latr.). Lanchester now writes that the coloration of the abdomen and 

 of the legs is that of Panul. fasciatus (de Haan), which is the same species as Panul. versi- 

 color (Latr.) : this coloration, however, is quite different from that which is presented by Panul. 

 ornatus (Fabr.) and Panul. polyphagus (Herbst). 



9. Panulirus versicolor (Latr.). (PI. II, Fig. 7 — je). 



Palinurus versicolor P. A. Latreille, Annales du Muséum, T. III, 1804, p. 394 and in: Nouv. 



Dict. d'hist. nat. T. XVII. 

 Palinurus versicolor G. Pfefter, Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Palinurus Fabr., Hamburg 1897, p. 12. 

 Palinurus versicolor J. G. de Man, in: Abhandl. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesells., Bd. XXV, Heft III, 



1902, p. 760. 



Panulirus versicolor G. Nobili, in: Buil. Scientif. France-Belgique, T. XL, 1906, p. 59. 

 Palinurus tacniatus J. B. P. A. de Lamarck, Hist. nat. des animaux sans vertèbres, T. V. 

 Panulirus ornatus (Fabr.), var. taeniatus A. Gruvel, in : Annales Institut Océanogr., T. III, 

 Fase. IV, Paris 191 1, p. 48, PI. VI, fig. 3. 



