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the Cape Verde Islands, with similarly complete abdominal grooves 

 led to correspondence with J. Forest at the Museum National d'His- 

 toh-e Naturelle in Paris and the disclosure that Cape Verde specimens 

 of P. echinatus are variable in this regard. The somewhat larger 

 light spots on the abdomen of the St. Helena specunen and the 

 broader Hght stripes on the legs may eventually prove to be of sub- 



Figure 3.—Panulirus echinatus, frontal region of ovigerous female from James Bay. 



specific significance, but that conclusion must await the study of 

 series of P. echinatus from various parts of its range. 



The species is known at St. Helena as the "long-legs," where it is 

 of some local commercial importance, but it is not taken as frequently 

 as the "stump" (Scyllarides herklotsii). 



Distribution: Cape Verde Islands; St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks; 

 St. Helena; Brazil. Sublittoral. 



Family Scyllaridae 



Scyllarides herklotsii (Herklots) 



Figure 5 



Scyllarus Herklotsii Herklots, 1851, p. 14, pi. 2, figs. 14, 15. 



Scyllarus Za^Ms.— Melliss, 1875, p. 203.— Cunningham, 1910, p. 119.— Colman, 



1946, pp. 275, 277. 

 IScyllarides elisabethae. — Stebbing, 1914, pp. 255, 282. 

 Scyllarides herklotsi. — Holthuis, 1952b, p. 23, fig. 6. 



Material: Off Rupert's Bay; buoy; 0-2 meters; Feb. 2, 1959; 1 

 postlarva (pseudibacus stage). — James Bay; fish market; December 



