7'^ L. A. BORRADAILE, 



joint, with which they can make a sound by rubbing it against the head. It would be 

 interesting to know the use of this noise. 



Family Palinuridae. Genus Panulirus White, 1847. 



1. Panulirus penicillatus (Oliv.), 1791. Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. vi. Syst. p. 28. 



Dried shells found on the outer beach at Minikoi. These dried shells of rock-lobsters 

 are strangely more common on the beach than those of other Decapoda. Whether this be 

 due as the natives say, to the creatures coming up to the surface to shed them, or to 

 thei'r getting killed on the reef in some way, is hard to say, but I have never seen one with 

 the soft parts inside. 



2. Pamdirus polyphagus (Hbst.), 1793. Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. x. Syst. p. 266. 



My specimens have no white band across the abdominal segments, and the white markings 

 on the legs are in stripes running lengthwise, but broken and somewhat wandering This 

 form would seem to be the one to which Fabricius gave the name of ornatus (Ent. Syst. 

 Suppl., p. 400, 1798). 



One dried shell from the beach and one very small individual taken alive on the reef 

 at Minikoi. Common in the Maldives. 



Family Scyllaridae. Genus Scyllarus Fabr., 1793. 



3. Scylkm^s martensi {?h«ev), 18HI. (PI. LVIII. fig. 4.) Ovtm^nn, Zool.Jahrb. vi. Syst. 

 p. 44. 



The four or five teeth on the inner edge of the second joint of the antenna in this 

 species are each more or less deeply cleft into two in most of my specimens, so as to 

 give a saw-like edge with twice the number of teeth. 



Dredged in Mulaku, Kolumadulu, Mahlosmadulu, and South Nilandu, in depths of 20-40 

 fathoms, always on a bottom of sand or mud. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE LVIII. 



Fig. 1. Remipes gramdaltis n. sp. a. from above, b. from beneath. 



Fig. 2. ? Gallm.iassa longiventris A. M.-Edw. a. whole animal from above, h. outside of greater 



hand. The lash of tlie antenna and the fourth leg on each side are lost. 

 Fig. 3. CaUianassa maldivensis n. sp. a. whole ani.nal from above, h. outside of greater hand. 



The lash of the antenna and the last leg on each side are lost. 

 Fig. 4. Scyllarus marteud PfeflFer, var. a. whole animal from above, b. first leg, c. third leg, 



d. anteunule, folded up, e. one of the scales on the back greatly enlarged. 



