( 44 ) 



Chelipeds equal and similar, in length about i^ times that of the 

 carapace, very much more massive than the legs : the merus has a few^ vesi- 

 culous tubercles on its outer and under surfaces, and its upper and inner 

 borders are merely serrulate : the wrist and hand have the inner border 

 strongly and coarsely serrate, and the extensor surfaces — as of the fingers also — 

 closely beset with conical tubercles or coarse spines, on most of which a tuft 

 of bristles is placed, the bristles being most conspicuous on the fingers : there 

 is a gap between the bases of the closed fingers. 



The 2nd and 3rd pairs of legs just reach beyond the chelipeds : their 

 surface is more or less broken, but not distinctly tuberculous, and they are 

 beset with tufts of bristles which are longest and thickest on the dactyli : 

 the dactyli are from i}^ to ij^ times as long as their propodites, which are 

 all subcylindrical. 



Colours in spirit : reddish brown or reddish yellow, fingers of chelipeds 

 maroon ; some very faint lighter longitudinal lines on eyestalks and legs. 



Length of carapace 46 millim. 



1548 Pondicherry, Purchased, 



7922 



— — Mouth of Hooghly. Pilots' Brig. 



Distribution : West and South-East coast of Africa, Bay of Bengal, 

 Penang, Singapore, Caspar Strait, Borneo, Hongkong. 



2. Clibanarius infraspinatus, Hilgendorf. 



Clibanariui infraspinatus, Hilgendori in v. d, Decken's Reisen Ost Afr. Ill i 1869, p 97, 

 footnote : de Man, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., XXII., 1888, p. 237 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., 

 VI., 1892, p. 290: Henderson, Tr. Linn. Soc, Zool., (2) V., 1893, p. 423: Nobili, Boll, Mus. 

 Torino, XVI II. No. 455, 1903, p. 19. 



Clibanarius vulgaris (part.) de Man, Notes Leyden Mus. XII., 1890, p. 112. 

 Differs from C. clibanarius in having (i) a very strong tooth at the near 

 end of the lower inner border of the merus of the chelipeds ; and (2) the 

 outer surface of the propodite of the 3rd left leg somewhat flatter ; besides 

 being of a lighter colour and very distinctly striped, in a longitudinal direc- 

 tion, on the eyestalks and legs. 



Length of carapace 30 millim. 



— g- Tavoy. Museum Collector (24 specimens), 



— r — Mergui. Dr. J. Anderson. 



Distribution : Red Sea eastwards to Sydney. 



3. Clibanarius padavensis, de Man. Plate IV, fig. 2. 



C/«iaKan«s /)arf(ji;g«sis, de Man, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., XXII, 1888, p. 242, pi. xvi., fig- 

 1 : Henderson, Tr. Linn. Soc, Zool., (2) V., 1893, p. 423, and Journ. A. S. B. LXV.,1896, pt. ii, 



