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of the single specimen from Java, upon wliich this variety was founded, and it contains nothing 

 about the maxilHpeds, while even the length has not been indicated. I therefore took the 

 liberty to apply to Dr. O. Pesta of the K. K. Xaturhistorisches Hofmuseum of Vienna, who 

 kindly wrote me that a type specimen of this variety, collected by the Xovara- 

 E.xpedition, does not e.xist in the collections of the Museum. Dr. pEsr.v ran 

 also over the old registers and catalogues of the Xovara-I£xpedition, which in general seem 

 to be very accurate, but he did not hnd this variety mentioned; he informed me that in Heller's 

 great work of 1865, not only Crustacea, collected by the "Xovara", have been described, but 

 also specimens of other origin, a fact already often observed by him, so that the tvpe of 

 Pal. ornatus var. dccorafus will perhaps once prove to be in Innsbruck or elsewhere. He had 

 just finished the determination of the Palinuridae preserved in the Museum of \'ienna; among 

 the I I specimens of Panul. ornat2is (Fabr.) three adult females, respectively from Batavia, 

 Sumatra and the Red Sea, were referred by Pesta to the variety decoratus. In all these 

 specimens now, thus also in the three of the variety, there is no exopod on the 3'''^ maxillipeds, 

 while the exopod of those of the 2"'' pair, hardly reaching the distal end of the merus, bears 

 no flagellum, but only a tuft of hair at the distal extremity. This fact renders the question 

 again doubtful, for both by Gruvel and by me the variety decoratus of Heller is regarded 

 as identical with Pamtl. taoiiatus (Lam.), while Pamil. taeniatus (Lam.) is identical with 

 PantiL versicolor (Latr.), in which the exopod of the 2"'^ maxillipeds bears a very small 

 flagellum that is not articulate. 



8. PanjtUrus oniafus (Fabr.), var. lacvis Lanchester. 



Scncx ornatus Fabr., var. no\'. lacvis W. V. Lanchester, in: Proc. Zoolog. Soc. London, 



1901, p. 557. 



After having compared this description with the adult specimens of Panul. versicolor 

 (Latr.) from Ternate and Simalur, I come to the conclusion that also this variety has been 

 established upon a quite adult specimen of Panul. versicolor (Latr.). The three only species 

 that can be taken into consideration, are Panul. polyphas^Jts (Herbst), Panul. ornatus (Fabr.) 

 and Pamil. versicolor (Latr.). Lan'CHEster now writes that the coloration of the abdomen and 

 of the legs is that of Panul. fascia tus (de Ilaan), which is the same species as Panul. versi- 

 color (Latr.) ; this coloration, however, is quite different from that which is presented by Panul. 

 orfiatus (P'abr.) and Panul. polyphagus (Herbst). 



g. P'atiulirus versicolor (Latr.). (PI. 11, l"ig. 7 — ~ c). 



Palinurits versicolor P. A. Latreille, Annalcs dii Museum, T. Ill, 1S04, p. 394 and in: Xouv. 



Diet, d'hist. nat. T. XVII. 

 Palimtrus versicolor G. PfclTer, Zur Kcnntnis der Gattung Paliiiunis I'abr., Hamburg 1897, p. 12. 

 Palinurits versicolor J. G. de Man, in: Abhandl. Senckenb. Xaturf. Gesells., Hd. XXV, Heft III, 



1902, p. 760. 



Panidirus versicolor G. Xobili, in: Bull. Scicntif. France-Holgique, T. XL, 1906, p. 59. 

 Palinurus taeniatus J. B. P. A. de Lamarck, Hist. nat. des animaux sans vertebres, T. \'. 

 Panidirus ornatus (Fabr.), var. taeniatus A. Gruvel, in: Annales Institut Oceanogr., T. Ill, 

 Fasc. IV, Paris 1911, p. 48, PI. VI, fig. 3. 



