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by about half the length of their dactyli. These dactyli are each 

 one and one-half times as long as their related propodi. 



The fourth pair of legs is subchelate. The fifth pair is weakly 

 chelate ; both pairs have patches of imbricated, corneous scales on 

 the propodal-dactylar areas. 



References : Cancer diogenes, Herbst, J. F. W., Naturg. Krab- 

 ben und Krebse, Bd. II, Heft I, p. 17, 1791 ; pi. 22, fig. 5. 



Diogenes diogenes, Henderson, J. R., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 

 Zool., ser. 2, vol. V, 1893, p. 412.— Alcock, A., Cat. Indian 

 Decapod. Crust., pt. II, Anomura, Fasc. I, Pagurides, 1905, p. 

 62, pi. 15, fig. 3. 



Pagurus miles, Fabricius, J. C, Ent. Syst. Suppl., 1798, p. 412,— 

 Edwards, H. M., Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., ser. 2, t. VI, 1836, p. 

 284 (nee I)]. 14, fig. 2). 



Genus: Pagurus Fabricius 

 Pagurus deformis H. Milne Edwards 



Plate 5 



Type: Dr. Milne Edwards* type series was collected on the 

 coasts of He de France, (Mauritius) , and of the Seychelles Islands 

 and is deposited in the collections of the Paris Museum d'Histoire 

 Naturelle. 



Distribution: This species has been many times recorded 

 from the area between approximately Long. 40° E., to 150° W. and 

 from Lat. 28° N. to the Society Archipelago and Hawaiian Archi- 

 pelago. The following localities have been cited for it : Red Sea 

 (Nobili) ; Dar-es-Salaam (Ortmann) ; Coasts of Mozambique 

 (Hilgendorf ) ; Madagascar (Lenz and Richters) ; Nossi Be, Mada- 

 gascar (Gravier, Lenz) ; Seychelles Islands (H. M. Edwards, 

 Richters) ; Durban, South Africa (Stebbing) ; Mauritius, He de 

 France (H. M. Edwards) ; Grand Port, Mauritius (Bouvier) ; 

 Reunion Island (A. M. Edwards) ; Chagos, Egmont, Lagoon 

 (Laurie) ; Maldive Archipelago: Hulule, Mamadu Addu; Lacca- 

 dive Archipelago (Borradaile) ; India, Rameswaram, Tuticorin 

 (Henderson) ; Chokirbank, Ras Rangoni, Trincomalee, Ceylon 

 (Muller) ; Andaman Islands, Mergui (Alcock) ; Owen Island, 

 Mergui Archipelago (de Man) ; Borneo, Pulo Edam Island (de 

 Man) ; Philippine Islands (White, Miers) ; Ousima, Japan (Stimp- 

 son) ; Straits of Balabac (Dana) ; Temate (de Man) ; Timor 



