212 Bulletin Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Vol. VII 



Calappa hepatica (Linne) 



Volume V, plates 8, 9 and 10 



Material examined : Two young males taken in one fathom, 

 low tide, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, December 15, 1928, by the 

 "Ara." 



Remarks: These specimens measure 8.5 and 9 centimeters 

 maximum width, respectively. Each has the anterior two-thirds 

 of the carapace and external surface of the chelipeds abundantly 

 tuberculose, as is characteristic of this species. It was also taken 

 by the "Alva" World Cruise, 1931-32, on coral reefs, in Anaho 

 Bay, Nuka Hiva Island, Marquesas Islands, and is fully described 

 and figured in Volume V, Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Mu- 

 seum, 1934, p. 32, plates 8, 9 and 10. 



References: Above citation, Boone, L. — Ihle, J. E. W., Siboga 

 Expeditie, op. cit., p. 183. — Edmondson, C. H., Bull. XXVII, 

 B. P. Bishop Mus., 1925, p. 30. 



Subtribe: Brachygnatha 



Superfamily: Oxyrhyncha 



Family: MAJIDAE 



Subfamily: Inachinae 



Genus: Anasimus fugax A. Milne Edwards 



Plates 74, 75, and 76 



Type : This species, first collected by the United States gov- 

 ernment steamer "Blake," was based on three specimens, a female 

 and two males, taken in three deep-water localities, near Santa 

 Cruz, depth 115 fathoms, deposited in the Paris Museum, and 

 from two "Blake" stations, off Barbados, in 56 and 81 fathoms, 

 deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. 



Distribution : This species is strictly confined to deep water, 

 having a known range from 35 to 80, 97 and 120 fathoms from off 

 southern Florida to Cape Frio, Brazil. It has been dredged from 



