828 MAJOR ALCOCK. 



As will be seen from the foregoing lists, the Paguridae of the Maldives and Minikoi 

 belong, for the most part, to sjjecies that have a wide range from the coasts of E. Africa, 

 eastwards, far into Polynesia. 



This, I may mention, is the case with the littoral Paguridae — and also with the 

 Coenobitidae, which are land-hermits — of other parts of India; whereas the sublittoral 

 (25 — 250 fathoms) genera and species inhabiting Indian seas ajjpear to be most closely related 

 to the sublittoral hermits of the West Indies and of the north-west coast of Africa and 

 its outlying islands. As the sublittoral Paguridae are, as a whole, undoubtedly more primitive 

 than their land and littoral relatives — as is shown by their occasional symmetry, and by the 

 frequent persistence of paired appendages on the anterior segments of the abdomen — this 

 correspondence is of great interest. 



Subfamily Pagurinae. 



Paguristes, Dana. 



Two minute and damaged specimens from the Maldives — one from Suvadiva Atoll, the 

 other from S. Nilandu — belong to an undescribed si^ecies of this genus. All that can be 

 said of them is that they belong to that section of the genus which is characterized by 

 having the rostrum obsolescent, the antennal flagellum very short, and the fingers of the 

 chelipeds separated by a gap at base when closed, as in P. hians, P. incomitatus, and 

 P. jousseaumii. From all these they are distinguished by their extremely pallid eyes. 



GUbanarius, Dana. 



1. GUbanarius humilis, Dana. 



GUbanarius humilis, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp. Crust. Pt i. p. 469, PI. xxix. fig. 9 : Heller, 

 Novara Grust. p. 90. 



Maldives, Goidu. One small specimen, which has been compared with one from Rarotonga. 



Distribution. Laccadives and Maldives, Nicobars, Fiji Is., Tonga Is., Cook Is. 



Galcinus, Dana. 



2. Galcinus herbstii, de Man. 



Galcinus herbstii, de Man, Archiv fur Naturges. Liii. 1887, I. p. 437. Pagurus tibicen, 

 Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (2) vi. 1836, p. 278, and Hist. Nat. Grust. ii. p. 229: 

 Galcinus tibicen, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp. Grust. Pt I. p. 457 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 

 1891-92, p. 292. Pagurus laevinianus, Randall, Journ. Acad. Philad. viii. 1839, p. 135 

 (Jide Dana). 



Numerous specimens from Minikoi, and from Goidu, Maldives. 



Distribution. Indo-Pacific fi-om South-east and East Afi-ica to the Sandwich Islands, but 

 not further north or south than 30°. 



