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2. Pagurus vulnerans, Thallwitz. 



Pagiiyus vulnerans, Thallwitz, Abh. u. Ber. K. Zool. etc. Mus. Dresden, 1890-91 

 No. 3, p. 33. 



I regard this as probably a variety of/*, punctulattis, from which it differs 

 in the following particulars : — 



(i) the carapace is more depressed, and 



(2) the eyestalks are as long as its anterior border ; 



(3) the breadth of the propodite of the 3rd pair of legs is half its length ; 



(4) the colour of well preserved spirit specimens is uniform light yellow- 

 ish grey, the bristles light yellow, and the thorns on the chelipeds and legs 

 are tipped with brown. 



Distribution : off New Guinea (south) : Bay of Bengal : Persian Gulf. 



4251. 



— JQ-' Off Coromandel coast 20 fath. << Investigator " (2). 



•^' P^vsx^n Gulf. W. T. Blanford. 



3. Pagurus setifer, Edw., Henderson. Plate VIII., fig. 3. 



Pagurus setifer, Milne Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., (2) VI. 1836, p. 274, and Hist. Nat, 

 Crust. II., p. 225, 1837 : De Haan, Faun. Japon., Crust., p. 209, 1849 : Muller, Verh. Nat. 

 Ges. Basel, VIll. 1886, p. 472. See also de Man, Abh. Senckenberg. Nat. Ges., XXV. 1902, 

 p. 739. 



Pagurus sculptipes, Stimpson, Proc. Ac, Philad. (1858) 1859, p. 246 : Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., 

 Syst. VI. 1892, p. 287, and X. 1897,, p. 275 : Doflein, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. XXI. iii. 1902,' 

 p. 646. 



Paourus pavimentatu", Hiigendorf, MB. K. Akad. Berlin, 1878, p. 816, pi. iii., fig. 1.5. 



In form and proportions this species resembles P. punctulattis, but is 

 easily diagnosed by the following characters : 



The eyestalks are quite as long as the anterior border of the carapace 

 and are slightly longer than the antennular peduncles. 



The joints of the distal half of the antenna! flagellum have the antero- 

 internal angle produced. 



The chelipeds and legs have the same proportions and are beset with the 

 same black-tipped thorn-like spines, but the bristles are very short and fine 

 and do not in the least hide the spines and surface sculpture. In the hand 

 of the large (left) cheliped the bristles form little wreaths round the bases of 

 the spines, and along the lower border the spines are grouped m palisade 

 fashion (best seen from the inside). The same sort of toothed or crenulated 

 sculpture occurs along the edges of the two last joints of the third left leg ; 



