( 90 ) 



Distribution : from the east coast of Africa eastwards to Tahiti ; from 

 about 4o°E. to about i5o°W., and from about 28°N. i.o about i8°S. 



84 Andamans. J. Wood-Mason. 



1563. 



Andamans. J- Wood-Mason & F. Stoliczka (5). 



^m Andamans. R. D. Oldham (10). 



4 * 



8152_ Mergui. J. Anderson. 



[1289 " South Seas." Purchased.] 



g. Pagurus varipes, Heller. Plate IX., fig. 7. 

 ? Cancer pedunculattis, Herbst, Krabben, III. iv., p. 25, pi. Ixi., fig. 2, 1804. 



Pagurus pedunculatus, Olivier, Encycl. M^hod. VIII. 1811, p. 647: Owen, Zool. Voy. 

 H.M.S. Blossom, Crust., p. 83: Hilgendorf, MB. k. Akad. Berlin, 1878, p, 815: Ortmann, 

 in Semon's Forschungsr. in Austral., etc, 1894, p. 31. 



Pagurus varipes, Heller, Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, XI. 1861. p. 22 : SB. k. Akad. Wien, 

 XLIV. 1861, p. 244, pi. i., fig. 1, and pi. ii., fig. 2, 3: Kossmann, Reise roth. Meer., Malacost., 

 p. 75: de Man, Notes Leyden Mus. II. 1880, p. 184, and III. 1881, p. 129; and Arch. f. 

 Nat. LUI. 1887, i. p. 436; Cano, Boll. Soc. Nat. Napoli, III. 1889, p. 265: Bouvier, Bull. 

 Soc. Philom. (8) IV. 1891-92, p. 54 : Henderson, Tr. Linn. Soc, Zool., (2) V. 1893, p. 420. 



This species differs from P, de/ormis only in the following particulars :— 

 (i) the upper and outer surface of the dactylus of the left cheliped 

 carries several longitudinal rows of polished granules, but there is no thin 

 upstanding crest along the inner edge of the upper surface : 



(2) the outer surface of the dactylus of the third left leg is longitu- 

 dinally carinated near the lower margin : 



(3) the male has no openings corresponding with those of the female. 

 Distribution : Red Sea, Mozambique, Persian Gulf, South India and 



Ceylon, Malay Archipelago. 



1562. Persian Gulf. W. T. Blanford (3). 



i^. Persian Gulf, 48 fath. " Investigator." 



10. Pagurus asper, DeHaan. Plate IX., fig. 5, 



Pagurus a3/'«»', DeHaan, Faun. Japon. Crust., p. 208, pi. slix., fig. 4, 1849: Dana, U. S. 

 Expl. Exp. Crust., pt. I., p. 450, 1852: Stimpson, Proc. Ac Nat. Sci. Philad. (1858) 1859, 

 p. 246: de Man, Notes Leyden Mus. III. 1881, p. 130: Muller, Verb. nat. Ges. Basel, VIII. 

 1886, p. 472: Ortmann, in Semon's Zool. Forschungsr. 1894, p. 31: Borradaile, Stomap. 

 and Macrura of Willey's Exp., 1899, pp. 396, 397, 424. 



