ETISUS MACULATUS. 173 



Except by its smaller size our specimen thus wholly agrees 

 with Actaea rufopunctata M. Edw.; it is of a beautiful 

 purplish red colour, with white spots on the epigastrical 

 regions, on the protogastrical regions and on the greater 

 part of the posterior surface of the carapace; but the 

 mesogastrical and cardiacal regions are again for the greater 

 part of a purplish red. 



I have found in the Museum still another Actaea from 

 the Timor seas, which belongs most positively to our spe- 

 cies and which differs from the Djeddah specimen only 

 by the frontal lobes being a little emarginate at the outer 

 side and by the longer hairs of the upper surface of the 

 carapace. This species therefore appears to be a little 

 variable. 



4. Actaea hirsutissima Rupp. 



There is a fine female specimen in the collection , with 

 the carapace 20 mm. broad and 13 mm. long. 



5, E t is us maculatus Heller. 



Heller, 1. c. pag. 332. 



There are five young specimens of this species in the 

 collection; it appears to me however to be very probable 

 that this species may be identical with Etisus laevimanus 

 Randall , which is found on the East coast of Africa 

 throughout the whole Indo-Pacific Region as far as Japan , 

 near the Sandwich isles and New-Caledonia. Our five specimens 

 agree at least entirely with specimens of Etisus, which I 

 believe to belong to Etisus laevimanus Randall, (the des- 

 cription of which species being not in my hands) and which 

 are labelled in the Museum as coming from Padang , 

 Xulla-Bessy, Timor and Nossy-Faly. 



The largest of our five Djeddah specimens , a female , 

 has the carapace 22 mm. broad; the arms of the nearly 

 equal anterior legs are but little prominent beyond the 



Notes from the Leyden ^luseixm , Vol. II. 



