266 Bulletin Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Vol. VII 



Pagurus deformis H. Milne Edwards 



Volume VI, plate 5 



Material examined : Four large specimens, in shells of Turbo 

 species, collected in Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 

 January 16, 1929, by the "Ara" World Cruise. 



Discussion : The present series are exceptionally fine speci- 

 mens and represent the third Philippine record for the species, 

 previously reported from the Philippines by Adam White (1848) , 

 also by Mr. E. J. Miers (1875) in his report on the voyage of H. M. 

 S. "Erebus" and "Terror" Crustacea, all of which material is de- 

 posited in the collections of the British Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, hence the "Ara" specimens become the first from the Philip- 

 pines in an American museum. This species was also taken by the 

 "Alva" World Cruise, 1931-1932, in Southport, Australia, and the 

 Society Islands, and is fully described and figured in Volume VI, 

 Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum, 1935, p. 28, plate 5. 



Pagurus varipes Heller 



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Plates 104 and 105 



Type: This was collected in the Red Sea by Herr Ritter v. 

 Fraunfeld, in 1855, and is deposited in the Zoological cabinet of 

 the University Museum of Vienna. (Heller dixit). 



Distribution: This species has been dependably recorded 

 from the Red Sea southward on the east African coast at Mozam- 

 bique, and eastward in the Persian Gulf, Southern India, Ceylon, 

 and the Malay Archipelago. The Hawaiian specimens here 

 recorded from the "Ara" World Cruise, thus substantially extend 

 the known range of the species to the central Pacific. 



Material examined : Two large specimens, in shell of Dolium 

 species, collected at Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, December 12, 1928, 

 by the "Ara" World Cruise. 



Technical description : This hermit is distinguished from 

 P. deformis only in the following essentials : 



(a) The upper and outer surfaces of the propodus and dac- 

 tyli are paved with several longitudinal rows of conic or rounded. 



