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Distribution : Indo-Pacific from S. E. and E. Africa eastwards to the 

 Sandwich Islands, but not outside so'N. or 3o°S. 



2083—9: 2450— v3 



la. Calcinus herbstii var. lividus, Edw. 



Pagiirus lividus, Milne Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., (3) X. 1848, p. 63. Calcmus 

 herbstii var. lividus, Borradaile, P.Z.S., 1898, p. 462. 



Differs from typical specimens only in the following particulars : — 



The body and appendages are of an almost uniform leaden colour, the 

 left cheliped showing only faintly the darker colour-pattern. 



The surface of the 2nd and 3rd legs is finely pitted in transverse lines. 



From Mr. Stanley Gardiner's Maldive Islands collection : not in the 

 Museum, 



2. Calcinus elegans, Edw. Plate V., fig. 2. 



Pagurus elegans, Milne Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool,, (2) VI, 1836, p. 278,'pl. xiii., fig. 2. 

 and (3) X. 1848, p. 63; and Hist. Nat. Crust. II. 1837, p. 229; Krauss, Sudafr. Crust., 1843, 

 p. 63. Calcinus elegans, Dana, U. S. Expl. Exp., Crust., pt. I., 1852, p. 458, pi. .\xviii. fig. 10 

 a—c- Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Philad, (1858) 1859, p. 247 : Heller, Novara Crust., 1865, p. 88; 

 Tozzetti, Magenta Crust, 1877, p. 229: Miers, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 168, 1879, p. 492: 

 Richters in Mobius Meeresf. Maurit. 1880, p. 161; de Man, Notes Leyden Mus. XM, 1890, 

 p. 108: Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., VI. 1892, p. 294: Henderson, J.A.S.B., LXV. 1896, 

 pt. ii., p. 519: Whitelegge, Mem. Austral. Mus. 111.1897, p. 143 ; Borradaile, P.Z.S., 1898, 

 p. 461 : Lenz, Zool. Jahrb., Syst,, XIV, 1901, p. 444. 



Pagurus pictus, Owen, Zool. H.M.S. Blossom, 1839, Crust,, p. 83, pi. .nxv, fig. 2. 



Pagurus decorus, Randall, Journ, Acad. Philad. 1839, p. 134. 



Differs from C. herbstii in the following characters : — 



The eyestalks, which are much slenderer, are about i^ times as long 

 as the anterior border of the carapace : the antennal acicle overlaps the 

 base of the last joint of the peduncle, and the flagellum is not so long as the 

 carapace. 



The left cheliped has a few spines on the distal border of the merus, 

 one or two on the upper border of the carpus, and some granules on the 



