540 CRUSTACEANS OF WEST COAST OF AFRICA BENEDICT. 



]\rACRURA. 



Family rALINUKID.^^]. 



Paimlirus guttatus (Latieille). var., Batf. 



J'aUnuriis fiutfatus Latifilli'. Ann. dn Mnsfuni, ui, ]>. 393. 



I'linitliniH f/iittatiiti, var. Bate, Voyage of the Challenger, Maciina, \>. 7S, ]il. \((. 



One larj»e speciiueii of this species, agreeing- very well with the 

 variety (les('ril)e(l by Bate, was obtained at Porto (xraiKle. November 12. 



Panulirtis spinosiis (/i) Miluf I'.dwards. 

 Hist. Nat. dt's Cnist., i>. 21t>s. 



Two females with eggs, Toiro (rraude, November 12. 



Family PAL.1^:M0NID.E. 

 Palaenion janiaicensis? llorbst. 

 Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. des (rust., ii. p. 'S'i)S, and synonymy. 



Ten specimens from the Qnanza Piver at Cunga. In comparison with 

 specimens from the ishmd of Old Providence, West Indies, they are a 

 little more slender, the teeth of the inner margin of the fingers are 

 larger, and the spines of the first ])ereio]iod are coarser. They agree 

 more ch)sely with much larger specimens from Nicaragua. It is i>ossi- 

 ble that a large amount of material from these widely separated locali- 

 ties wimld give suihcient data to dividi? the species into varieties. The 

 length of the largest specimen, from the tip of the rostrum to the end 

 of the telson, is l."»L' millimeters; length of the lelt anterior ])ereipod, 

 192 millimeters. 



Family PEN.EID.E. 



Peiiceus brasiliensis Latnillc. 



N»)nv. Diit. Hist. Nat., xxv, i). l.")(), LSIT. Mii-rs, J'roc. Zoill. Sot-. London, pp. 29S), 

 306, 1878. 



A tnimber of specimens of this species are in the collection fr(mi 

 Elmina, Ashantee. Miers says that "specimens from Whydah, on the 

 west coast of Africa, agree in all respects with authentic specimens 

 from Brazil." Oui' specimens range from Go to !M) millimeters in length. 

 They corresiioiul with Miers's descrii)tion, and compared with specimens 

 from off Trinidad, West Indies, agree well, except that the latter have 

 only niiu> teeth on the rostrum, while the former have ten. In the 

 Trinidad specimens the longitudinal sulci do not extend quite so near 

 to tiie i)osterior border of the cephalotliorax and do not end in little 

 pits, as is the case w ith those from Elmina. 



