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In the male the coxa of the 5th right leg is produced into a long curved 

 compressed tube. 



Colours in spirit : chelipeds, legs, and anterior half of carapace bright 

 cinnabar red profusely spotted with yellow (the tubercles) ; telson and 

 posterior part of carapace duller red. 



Length of carapace 50 millim. 



This species is common in the jungles of the Andamans often far from 

 the shore. 



6717 



4 



2417-18 



Nicobars, 

 Andamans. 



Lit. Coco I., Andamans, 



Gt, Coco 1., Andamans. 



Andamans. 



Suhelipar, Laccadives. 



Society Is. 

 Samoa and Viti. 



J. U'ood-Mason. (5). 

 R, D. Oldham. 



A Alcock. 



A. R. S. Anderson. (16) 



■' Investioator." 



Otago Museum. 



Purchased. i3). 



Geographical range : from Mauritius and Seychelles through the Indo- 

 Pacific to Samoa. 



4. CcENoBiTA CAviPEs, Stimpson, Bouvier. Plate XIV., fig. i. 



Cosnobita cavipcs, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (1858) 1859, p. 245: Bouvier, 

 Bull. Soc. Philom. (8) II., 1889 90, p. 143 : Nobili, Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) XX., 1900, p. 495: de 

 Man, Abh. Sencbenberg. Nat. Ges , XXIV., 1902, p. 743, pi. xxiv. fig. 46. 



Coenobita violasccns, Heller, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, XII., 1862, p. 524 ; and Novara 

 Crust., 1865, p. 82, pi. vii. fig. 1 : Hilgendorf, in v. d. Decken's Reisen Ost-Afr., III. i 1869, 

 p. 99, pi. vi. fig. 3 6 ; and MB. Akad. Berl., 1878, p. 825 : de Man, Archiv f Nat , LIll,, 1887. 

 i , p. 453 ; and Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., XXII., 1888, p. 255. 



Ccenobita compressa. Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) V, 1880, p. 37J. 



Ccrnobita compressus, Ortmann, Zool. dahrb., Syst., VI. 1892, p. 318, pi. xii. fig 23: 

 Henderson, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. (2)V,, 1893, p. 410: Borradaile, Stomatop, and Macr, 

 Willey's Exp , 1899, pp. 396, 397, 398, 425; and Fauna and Geogr. Maid, and Lace. Arch. 

 I. i. 1901, p. 97 ; Nobili, Ann. Mus. Genov. (2). XX , 1900, p. 495; Lanchester, P. Z. S., 1902, 

 II., p. 368. 



The species here described is, I think, undoubtedly the C. violascens of 

 Heller from the Nicobars, Ortmann, and those who have followed him, 



