412 ME. J. E. HENDEESON — A CONTEIBUTION 



miles is now termed Pagiirus diojjliamts, and what is probably the Cancer Diogenes of 

 Herbst is termed Fayuriis miles. A new species, I*agurt(s custos, appears in this work 

 for the first time, and there can be little doubt that it represents the very commou Indian 

 species which Milne-Edwards and others identified from Fabricius's short diagnosis. 

 De Man, in his E-eport on the Mergui Crustacea, has referred to the Pagurus miles of 

 Fabricius the species which I follow Milne-Edwards in regarding as P. custos, Fabr. ; this 

 determination was based on an examination of the type of the former, which is unfortu- 

 nately in a fragmentary state and some of the most important parts are missing, but I 

 imagine there has been some mistake in connexion with the labelling of the specimen, 

 for it does not agree with Fabricius's later diagnosis of P. miles. An examination of 

 types is not likely to bo^ of mucb service in this case, for it appears almost certain that 

 Fabricius described two distinct species under tbe name of P. miles. 



The species described by Milne-Edwards in the ' Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces ' as 

 P. miles, P. custos, and P. diaphmius are, in my opinion, identical with those so named 

 by Fabricius in the ' Supplementum Eutomologise Systematicse,' and, as I have pointed 

 out, Herbst's earlier names must be adopted in the case of two of these. 



207. Diogenes Diogenes (Herbst). 



Cancer Dior/enes, Herbst, Naturges. Krabben u. Krcbse, Bd. ii. Heft 1, p. 17, Taf. xxii. fig. 5 (1791). 



Fagiirus miles, Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 412 (1798) ; Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, t. ii. p. 235 

 (1837). 



Diogenes miles, Dana, Crust. U.S. Explor. Expcd. pt. i. p. 439, pi. xxvii. fig. 9 (1852) ; nee D. nii/es, 

 De Man. 



Eameswaram and Tuticorin ( Thurston). Common at Madras and on the S. Indian coast 

 generally {J. B. S.). 



The ophthalmic process is narrow and elongate, exceeding the ophthalmic scales by almost 

 half its length, and the distal half is armed with well-developed lateral spinules. The 

 eye-stalks are slender and faintly curved, slightly exceeding the penultimate joint of the 

 antennal peduncle ; the outer border of the ophthalmic scales is straight for the greater 

 part of its course, and armed with minute spinules which increase in size towards the 

 apex of each scale. The antenna! peduncle is elongated ; the antennal acicle is bifurcate 

 and minutely spinose, with the outer process considerably longer than the inner, and 

 extending almost to the distal end of the penultimate peduncular joint ; the flagellum is 

 rather long and sparingly pubescent. The antennular peduncle is elongated, exceeding 

 the antennal peduncle by almost half the length of its terminal joint. 



The hand of the left chelipede is armed externally and on its upper and lower margins 

 with strong, blunt, pointed spines, which are, however, deficient on an oblique area 

 extending from the carpo-propodal articulation to the base of the immobile finger ; the 

 dactylus is armed with two rows of similar spines— one on the upper border and the other 

 on the outer surface. The ambulatory legs are strongly pubescent, more especially their 

 dactyli, and the anterior surface of the three terminal joints is armed with short horny- 

 tipped spinules, which are arranged in three rows on the propodus. 

 The total length of the body in a full-grown adult is about 60 mm. 

 JJistrihution. Indian Seas ( Fabricius, Milne-Edwards, &c.) ; Madras and Nicobars 



