536 EET. T. R. B. STEBBING ON CRUSTACEAlfS [May 22, 



1874. Eupmjurus comptus, Miers, Zool. Erebus and Terror, 

 Crustacea, p. 3, pi. 2. tigs. 5, 5 a {Puc/urus comptus on plate). 



1881. Eupcigurus comptus, and var. latimanus, Miers, Pr. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond. p. 72. 



1888. Eupagurus comptus, var. jugosa, Henderson, ' Challenger ' 

 Anomura, Eeports, vol. xxvii. p. 67, pi. 7. fig. 2. 



1892. Eupagurus comptub, Ortmaun, Zool. Jahrb. vol. vi. p. 298. 

 The Pagunis forceps of Milne-Edwards, to which this species is 

 doubtfully referred by Cuuningham, was originally described from 

 Chile. Miers, in rejecting Cunningham's reference, says : " E. fw- 

 ceps, however, appears to be distinguished by the much shorter, 

 broader, larger hand, and the much shorter and less slender fingers 

 of the left anterior leg." Now, although Miers is probably right 

 in his rejection of Cunningham's reference, it is difficult to under- 

 stand the reasons he assigns for it. Milne-Edwards in his 

 description of forceps, says that the right cheliped is very large, 

 with the carpus much larger than the hand, and that the left 

 cheliped has the fingers slender, long, and pointed, the movable 

 finger almost filiform. In Eu. comptus the wrist of the right 

 cheliped is not much larger than the hand, and the fingers of the 

 left cheliped would have to be very thin to be more slender than 

 those which are almost filiform. 



Milne-Edwards describes the colour of his species as reddish 

 violet, with the feet ringed ; White describes his as " Whitish, the 

 antennae ringed with red, the legs with three or four broad red bands." 

 The specimen here referred to Eu. comptus, as pi'eserved in formalin, 

 retains in many parts a violet hue, speckled with reddish points 

 and lines, the distal half of the first anteunse is orange-coloured, 

 the flagella of the second antennae are brightly anuulated with red 

 and M'hite, and the two pairs of walking-legs have three broad 

 bands of brown, the uppermost bluish, the other two reddish. 



The rostral point is well marked. The eye-stalks are slender. 

 The ophthalmic scales are separated by no very wide ioterval. 

 The flagella of the second antennae, though not densely setuli- 

 ferous, have numerous setules of various lengths. In the right 

 cheliped the wrist is nearly or quite as broad and as long as the hand, 

 the outer surface broadly triangular, a little convex, with sharp, 

 granular or sen-ate margins, the lower surface two-sided ; the 

 hand and finger together form a broad oval, the outer edges of 

 the fingers sharply serrate, the outer margin of the hand above 

 the movable finger thickened, with two edges, meeting a slight 

 expansion, rounded and serrate, of the wrist ; the outer surface 

 of the hand having a ridge from the movable finger to the wrist. 

 In the 'Voyage of the Erebus and Terror' some very rough figures 

 are given of the type, the figures probably much older than the 

 date of publication. They are left unexplained by Miers. They 

 show a movable finger much shorter than the immovable one, 

 which is produced to a sharp point. If they faithfully represent 

 an actual specimen, the probability is that it ^vas a deformed 

 one. In the left cheliped, which is much smaller than the right, 

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