52 CARCINOLOGICAL STUDIES, 



In the young male individual the leaJ-coloured tint of 

 the index does not yet cover the distal part of the palm , 

 which is the case in the adult male. 



Dimensions of the female : 

 Distance between the external orbital angles H^/s nira. 

 Greatest width of the cephalothorax . . . 29\'4 » 



Length of the cephalothorax 15^.-, » 



Length of the hand l^Vo » 



Height of the palm 4^/6 » 



3. X ant ho punctatus H. Milne Edw. 



(PI- 3, fig. 1). 



Xantho punctatus, H. Milne Edwards; A. Milne Edwards, Noti- 

 vellea Archives da Muséum, T. IX, p. 199, PI. VII, fig. 6. — de 

 Man, in: Archiv f. Naturgeschichte , Jahrg. 53, 1888, p. 238. 



The collection contains two fine adult specimens , a male 

 and a female, of which the locality is unknown. 



The two chelipedes of the female have the same size and 

 agree entirely with the figure published by Milne Edwards. 

 In the male the right chelipede (fig. 1) is considerably 

 larger than the left. The black colour of the fiugers extends 

 somewhat farther in the male than in the female , as may 

 be seen when comparing my figure of the larger hand of 

 the male with that of the hand of the female in the 

 »Nouvelles Archives." 



Dimensions : cf Q 



Greatest breadth of the cephalothorax 49 mm. 42^/o mm. 

 Length of the cephalothorax ... 30 » 26 » 

 Distance between the external orbital 



angles 20'/j » l?'/, » 



Length of the larger hand . . . .4072 » 

 Height of the larger hand . . . • lö'/g » 



4. Kant ho (Lachnopodus) t a hi ten sis de Man. 



Xantho {Lachnopodus} tahilensis , de Man, in: Zool. Jahrbiicher, 

 Abth. f. System. Bd. IV, 1888, S. 418, Taf. IX, fig. 4. 



Notes frora the I^eytlen JMasetim, Vol. XII. 



