432 L. A. BORRADAILE. 



Length of the only specimen (a female): 12cm. Breadth: 13cm. Colour in spirit: 

 mottled brown. 



One female was taken from mthin the shell of a Mya (?) in Minikoi. 



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Fig. 113. Pinnotheres tenuipes • A. whole animal, B. outside of hand, C. third maxilliped. 



Family Grapsidae. 

 Subfamily Grapsinae. Genus Pachygrapsus Randall, 1839. 



7. Pachygrapsus minutus (A. M.-Edw.), 1873. Alcock, VI. p. 379. 



Taken at Minikoi, and dredged in Fadifolu -and Mahlos Atolls down to 25 fathoms. 



8. Pachygrapsus plicatus (H. M.-Edw.), 1837. 

 Pachygrapsus plicatus, Kingsley, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1880, p. 200. 

 Taken at Hulule, Male Atoll and Goidu, Goifurfehendu Atoll. 



9. Pachygrapsus planifrons de Man, 1887. 



Pachygrapsus planifrons de Man, Arch. Naturges. Liii. i. p. 368, PL XVI. Fig. 2 (1887). 

 Taken in a coral mass on the outer reef at Minikoi. 



Subfamily Varuninae. Genus Planes Leach, 1815. 



10. Planes minutus (Linn.), 1750. 



Nautilograpsus minutus, Kingsley, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1830, p. 202. 

 Taken at Male on a floating cuttle-bone. 



Subfamily Plagusiinae. Genus Plagusia Latr., 1806. 



11. Plagusia depressa (Hbst.), 1793, var. squamosa (Hbst.), 1790. Alcock, vi. p. 437. 

 Common all over the Archipelagoes, scrambling actively over the rocks at low tide. 



Genus Leiolophus Miers, 1876. 



12. Leiolophus planissimus (Hbst.), 1804. Alcock, vi. p. 439. 



Common all over the Archipelagoes. Hides under stones, clinging with its flat body 

 close against them. When the stone is turned, the crab slips away, and is hard to secure. 



