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Palinurus fasciatns W. de Haan, Fauna Japon. Crustacea, 1S50, p. 159, tab. 43 '44, fig. 2. 



Palinurtis fasciatus J. Thallwitz, Decapoden-Studien, 1891, p. 28, 29. 



Palinurus fasciatus J. G. de Man, in: Max Weber's Zoolog. Ergebn. einer Reise nach Niederl. 



Ost-Indien, II, 1892, p. 354 (after a new examination of the two specimens from tlie Bay 



of Bima). 

 Palinurus fasciatus J. G. de Man, in: Zoolog. Jalirb. Abt. f. Syst. IX, 1896, p. 508. 

 Palinurus ornatus, var. decoratus C. Heller, Crustaceen der Novara- Reise, 1865, p. 99. 

 Senex ornatus Fabr., var. nov. lacvis W. F. Lanchester, in: Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1901, p. 557. 

 Palinurus sp., J. G. de Man, I.e. 1896, p. 507. 

 Pannlirus ornatus A. Gruvel, 1. c. p. 47 (partim). 

 Paiuilirus ornatus H. Balss, Ostasiatische Decapoden. II. Die Natantia und Reptantia, Munchen 



1914, p. 'j'^ (partim). 

 Palinurus polyphagus A. E. Ortmann, in: R. Semon, Zoolog. Forschungsreisen in Australien 



und dem Malayischen Archipel, Jena, 1894, Sep.-Abdr., p. 19. 

 Panulirus deinani L. A. Borradaile, in: A. Willey"s Zoological Results, Part IV, Sept. 1899, 



p. 418. 



Stat. 58. April 25. Anchorage off Seba, Savu. Reef, i very young specimen. 



Stat. 131. July 24/25. Anchorage off Beo, Karakelang-Islands. 13 m. Bottom mud and sand. 



I female of medium size. 

 Stat. 136. July 29 — August 3. Ternate. 23 m. Bottom mud and stone, i adult specimen. 

 .Stat. 193. Sept. 13 14. Sanana-Bay, East coast of Sula Besi. Reef, i very young specimen. 

 Stat. 209. Sept. 23. Anchorage off the south point of Kabaena-Island. Reef, i very young 



specimen. 

 Stat. 225. Nov. 8. South point of South-Lucipara-Island. Reef, i very young specimen. 

 Stat. 231. Nov. 14/18. Ambon. Reef, i young and 2 very young specimens. 

 Stat. 234. Nov. 19/20. Nalahia-Bay, Nusa-Laut-Island. 46 m. Bottom stony, i young and i 



very young specimen. 

 Stat. 258. Dec. 12/16. Tual-Anchorage, Kei-Islands. 22 m. Bottom Lithothamnion, sand and 



coral. 4 very young specimens. 

 Stat. 282. January I5'r7, 1900. 8°25'.2S., 127° 184 E. Anchorage between Nusa Besi and the 



N. E. point of Timor. Reef, i young specimen. 

 Stat. 301. Jan. 30 — Febr. I, 1900. io°38'S., I23°25'.2E. Pepela-Bay, East coast of Rotti- 



Island. Reef. 2 young females. 

 Nias. 3 young specimens, captured in 19 10 by Mr. Kleiweg DE Zwaan, the largest one, 



the carapace of which is 11,5 mm. long, from Goenoeng Sitoli. 

 Sinabang-Bay (Simalurl, Sumatra. 2 adult males, obtained Febr. 1913 by Mr. E. JACOBSON. 



It is a remarkable fact, indeed, that, in his important Monograph of the Palinuridae, 

 Pamil. versicolor (Latr.) is again regarded by A. Gruvel as a variety of Panul. ornatus (Fabr.), 

 in spite of Pfeffer's researches, who in 1897 has fully elucidated the differential characters of 

 both species in his paper: Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Palinurus Fabr., and that H. Balss has 

 been of the same opinion (Ostasiatische Decapoden, II, 19 14, p. 78). H. Milne-Edwards sup- 

 posed in 1837 that Paniil. versicolor should be the young of Panul. penicillatus and this 

 fact may perhaps explain, why Latreille's species has been such a long time misunderstood. 

 According to the author of the "Histoire Nat. des Crustaces", already in 1S37 no specimens did 

 exist in the Paris Museum, labelled Palin. taeniatus Lam.; Milne-Edwards, however, considered 

 this species to be most closely related to Palin. fasciatus i.e. to Panul. polyphagus (Herbst). 

 Panulirus taeniatus (Lam.) is now regarded by Gruvel as a variety of Panul. ornatus (Fabr.) 

 and a beautiful figure of this variety is published by him as Fig. 3 of Plate VI. This figure 

 now proves that Panul. versicolor (Latr.) is just the same species as that form which Gruvel 



