40 Bulletin Vanderbilt Marine MuLseum, Vol. VI 



XLVIII, 1914-15, p. 213.— Laurie, R. D., Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 London, Zool., ser. 2, vol. XIX, 1926, p. 159. 



Family: CENOBITIDAE 



Genus: CENOBITA Latreille 



Cenobita clypeatus Latreille 



Plate 9 



Type: Latreille's type came from the "seas of Asia" and is 

 deposited in the Paris Museum. 



Distribution : This land-dwelling species has been recorded 

 from tropical east Africa eastward to the Paumotu Archipelago. 

 Bouvier has also recorded it from tropical west Africa. The fol- 

 lowing localities have been cited : Tropical west Africa (Bouvier) ; 

 He aux Prunes, East Madagascar (Lenz) ; Seychelles Islands 

 (Richters) ; South Seas (Alcock) ; seas of Asia (Edwards, La- 

 treille) ; Maldives, at Goidu and probably elsewhere in this archi- 

 pelago (Borradaile) ; Minikoi Islands (Borradaile) ; Subhelipar, 

 Laccadives (Alcock) ; Watering Point, Galle, station 37, Gulf of 

 Manaar (Southwell) ; Ye River, Burma, India (Alcock) ; Nicobar 

 Islands (Heller) ; Pulo Edam Island, Noordwachter Island, Bor- 

 neo (de Man) ; Kifa-juc, Malaysia (Nobili) ; Balabac Passage 

 (Dana) ; Amboina Island, Moluccas Islands (Hilgendorf, Miers, 

 Zehntner) ; Ternate Island (Hilgendorf) ; Emmahafen (Balss) ; 

 Komoren (Hilgendorf) ; Funafuti Atoll, Ellice Islands (Borra- 

 daile, Whitelegge) ; Lifu, Loyalty Islands (Borradaile) ; Tahiti, 

 Society Islands (Ortmann, Heller) ; Bora Bora, Society Islands 

 (Boone) ; Hao Island, Amanu, Paumotu Archipelago (Nobili). 



Material examined : Seventy-four specimens, Muller's Reef, 

 Bora Bora Island, Society Islands, August 24, 1931. 



Technical description : This well characterized land-dwell- 

 ing species has been repeatedly described by several authors, the 

 majority of whom prefer to retain for it the name C. clypeatus, 

 although recognizing, as pointed out by Hilgendorf, Alcock and 

 others, that this may be challenged by nomenclature "lawyers." 



The carapace has the precervical portion very convex dorsally 

 and decidedly punctate; the posterior area less so. The rostral 

 point is acute. The ophthalmic scales are laminate with the free 

 margins serrulate. The antennulae have the peduncle about fif- 



