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The chelipeds and legs are more or less beset, especially in their last two 

 joints, with long yellow bristles, which are thickest on the lower part of the 

 outer surface of the hand of the left cheliped, and form a particularly long 

 and thick fringe along the inner and outer borders of the last two joints 

 of the 3rd left leg. A large, nearly bald, polished patch forms a charac- 

 teristic feature of the dorsal surface of the carpus of the chelipeds and 

 crawling legs. As in P. punctulattis, thorn-like spines are concealed among 

 the bristles of these appendages, but they are not nearly so numerous. 



As in P. euopsis, the left cheliped is larger, but not vastly larger, and 

 not much longer than the right ; and the legs of both sides reach well 

 beyond its tip. 



The outer surface of the propodite and dactylus of the third left leg is 

 broadened, longitudinally grooved near the upper margin, and very regularly 

 and beautifully striated or tessellated transversely so as to simulate a series 

 of scutes. 



Colours in spirit : a few red and white patches at the anterior end of 

 the carapace, and on the antennal peduncles and ophthalmic scales ; external 

 maxiUipeds, chelipeds and legs purplish-crimson flecked with white ; the 

 characteristic bare patch on the carpus of the chelipeds and legs nearly 

 white. 



Distribution : from Mozambique eastwards as far as the Sandwich Is.; 

 from about 40° E. to about 180° E., and from about 20° N. to about 34° S. 



Length of carapace in a specimen from the "South Seas," 50 millim. 



4663 



-jTj-' Minnikoy. J. Stanley Gardiner. 



[1293. "South Seas." Purchased.] 



8. Pagurus deformis, Edw. Plate IX., fig. 4. 



- Pagurus deformis, Milne Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., (2) VI. 1836, p. 272, pi. xiv., 

 fig. 2 ; and (3) X. 1848, p. 60 ; and Hist. Nat. Crust. II.. p. 222, 1837 : ?Randall, Proc. Acad. 

 Philad. (1839) 1840, p. 133 : Dana. U. S. Exp!. Exp. Crust.. Pt. I., p. 449. 1852 : Stimpson, 

 Proc Ac. Philad. (1858) 1859, p. 246: A. Milne Edwards in Maillard's I'ile Reunion, Anne-xe 

 F, p. 13, 1862 : Heller, Novara Crust., p. 86, 1865; Miers, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, 

 Crust., p. 3. pi, ii., fig. 3, 1875 : Hilgendorf, SB. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berlin. 1878, p. 186 (hermaphro- 

 ditism); and MB. k. Akad. Berlin, 1878. p. 818, pi. iii.. fig. 6, 7: Richters, in Mobius 

 Meeresf. Maurit. p. 160. 1880: Lenz u. Richters, Abh. Senck. nat. Ges. XII. 1881, p. 426 : 

 iMuller, Verb. nat. Ges. Basel, VIII. 1886. p. 472: de Man, Arch. f. Nat. LIII. 1887, 

 t. p. 435, and Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., X.Xll. 1888, p. 225: Henderson. Challenger 

 Anomura, p. 57, 1888, and Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool, (2) V. 1893, p. 420 : Ortmann, Zool., 

 Jahrb., Syst., VI. 1892, p. 288, and in Semon's Zool. Forschungsr. Austral., 1894, p. 31; 

 Zehntner, Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Geneve, II. 1894, p. 191. pi. viii., fig. 20; Borradaile, 

 P.Z.S., 1898. p. 460, and Stom. and Macrura of Willey's Exp., 1899, p. 424. 



