374 Mr. E. J. Miers on Malaysian Crustacea. 



Pagurus punctulatus } Olivier. 



Celebes, Badjoa (a female). A larger male is in the collec- 

 tion, without locality, in which the coloration has disappeared. 



Pagurus pedunculatus (Herbst). 



Batjan (an adult male). A larger male, without special 

 locality, is in the collection. 



The specimens I refer here agree very well with examples 

 named P. pedunculatus by White in the Museum collection. 

 As, however, I have not had an opportunity of referring to 

 Herbst's figure (the Museum copy of his work being imper- 

 fect), and as some recent remarks of Hilgendorf tend to throw 

 doubt upon the correctness of White's identification, I will 

 add that the specimens referred to P. pedunculatus in the 

 Museum collection closely resemble in external appearance 

 P. deformis, M. -Edwards, but may be distinguished by the 

 hand of the larger chelipede being somewhat more closely 

 granulated between the larger tubercles, which, as in P. de- 

 formis, are disposed in longitudinal series on the upper and 

 outer surface of the palm; the mobile finger is granulated (but 

 not carinated) on its upper and outer surface, the granules 

 being disposed in longitudinal series; the penultimate joint of 

 the third left leg is smooth, not carinated as in P. deformis • 

 the terminal joint, however, is nearly of the same form as in 

 that species. The dried specimens in the Museum collection 

 from Port Jackson and Australia have the eye-peduncles 

 marked with a very distinct white cincture, which is not 

 visible in the Malaysian specimens, which have been long 

 immersed in spirits. I will add that the external genital 

 orifices of the female are very distinct in the males of P. 

 deformis in the Museum collection (as noted by Hilgendorf), 

 but not in the males of specimens of P. pedunculatus. 



which I will designate D. spimdimanus, the rostrum is acute, hut does not 

 nearly reach to the apices of the ophthalmic scales, which are arcuate 

 externally, but not denticulated ; the merus and carpus of the larger (left) 

 chelipede are granulated externally, the carpus armed on its upper margin 

 with about a dozen spinules ; palm armed on its outer surface and upper 

 and lower margins with spinuliform granules; mobile finger with similar 

 spinules on its upper margin, lower defiexed but less abruptly than in 

 I), yrannlatus ; smaller chelipede with the palm covered with long fulvous 

 hairs, tarsal joints of the second and third legs on the right side (the left 

 are wanting) long, hairy, and smooth. 



Thi? species may be compared to D. penicillatus, Stimpson, but differs 

 in the non-denticulated ophthalmic scales, shorter rostrum, the armature 

 of the chelipedes, &c. 



