NO. 3556 PORTUNID CRABS—STEPHENSON AND REES 35 
China: U.S. Nav. Med. Res. Unit 2, Taipei, Formosa, purchased, 
received Feb. 13, 1958, Kuntz, 1 female. 
Philippines: Grande I., Subic Bay, Luzon, October 1907, Dr. J. C. 
Thompson, 1 ovig. female; Manila Bay, Dec. 9, 1907, Alb., 1 male; 
Manila Harbor, Dec. 30, 1907, Alb., 1 female; Sta. 5346, Cliff I., 
Malampaya Sound, Palawan Is., 10°50’30”N., 119°22/20”E., 7 f{m., 
Dec. 26, 1908, Alb., 1 female; Iloilo, Mar. 24, 1929, H. C. Kellers, 
2 males; Iloilo, May 5, 1929, H. C. Kellers, 1 male, 1 female; Sandakan 
Harbor, British North Borneo, June 28, 1929, Herre, 1 male, 2 females; 
Manila Bay, Dec. 22, 1933, Herre collection, 1 male. 
Australia: Lake Macquarie, N.S.W., M. Filmer, Henry J. Brown, 
1 male; Umba Kumba, south side of Little Lagoon, northeast end of 
Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria, between Apr. 6 and May 18, 
1948, R. R. Miller, 2 males, 1 female, 3 juvs.; Little Lagoon, northeast 
end of Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria, 1948, R. R. Miller, 8 juvs. 
MEASUREMENTS.—Males, 26-129 mm.; females, 38-125 mm.; ovig. 
females, 108-118 mm., juvs. 13-40 mm. 
DistripuTion.—Kast Africa to Tahiti, including Japan, Philippines, 
Australia, and New Zealand. 
Portunus pubescens (Dana) 
Lupa pubescens Dana, 1852a, pp. 274-275, pl. 16 (fig. 9); 1852b, p. 84. 
Portunus pubescens (Dana).—Rathbun, 1906, p. 870, pl. 14 (fig 1) Edmondson, 
1954, pp. 237-238, figs. 12, 18 —Stephenson and Campbell, 1959, pp. 99-101, 
figs. 2c, 3c, pls. 1 (fig. 3), 4C, 5C.—Stephenson, 1961a, p. 111. 
Neptunus pubescens (Dana).—Sakai, 1934, p. 303; 1939, pp. 388-389, pl. 80 
(fig. 1). 
Martertau.—China: AT—-51, Namru-2-Taipei, Formosa, 12 mi. S. of 
Tau Hsui, seashore, Lighthouse Beach, 1957, R. E. Kuntz, 1 male 
(19 mm.). 
Philippines: Port San Pio, in small stream near mouth, 20 ft. 
seine, Noy. 11, 1908, Alb., 1 female (17 mm.). 
Remarxs.—Crosnier (1962) in redescribing P. convexus de Haan has 
drawn attention to its close similarity to P. pubescens; however, male 
P. converus are easily distinguished by their sinuous pleopods 
(Crosnier, 1962, figs. 64-66). 
DiIstTRIBUTION.—EHastern and Western Australia, Japan, and 
Hawaii. 
Portunus pulchricristatus (Gordon) 
FIGURE 7 
Neptunus (Hellenus) spinipes Alcock, 1899, pp. 31-32, 39-40. 
Neptunus (Hellenus) pulchricristatus Gordon, 1931, p. 534, figs. 8, 10a. 
Not Neptunus (Amphitrite) spinipes Miers, 1886, p. 178, pl. 15 (fig. 1). 
Marerrau.—Philippines: Sta. 5097, Corregidor Lt., China Sea, off 
southern Luzon, 14°19’15”N., 120°33’52”E., 30 fm., Jan. 2, 1908, 
