470 CRUSTACEA. 



FAMILY II. CENOBITID^E. 

 CENOBITA OLIVIERI, Owen. 



Paumotu Archipelago, at Clermont Tonnerre, and Waterland 

 Islands; Tahiti. 



Colour, cinnabar red, brownish red. Peduncles of eyes rough 

 granulous above, very much compressed, height more than half the 

 length ; cornea triangular, vertically oblong. Surface of carapax with 

 obsolescent granuliform tubercles, but nearly smooth. Large hand with 

 short and small but spiniform tubercles, which are obsolescent below, 

 and crowded above especially on the moveable finger ; they have in 

 general corneous tips. There is a dense tuft of short hair along 

 upper margin of both hands. Inner surface of hands flat or even 

 excavate in upper half. The superior of the flagella of the inner an- 

 tennae about double the length of the inferior. Tarsi short (but very 

 little longer than preceding joint), and very stout, with short spini- 

 form tubercles having black corneous tips ; and rest of legs similar in 

 surface, except that the points are less crowded. Upper surface of 

 tarsi rounded ; under surface of the two left legs flattened, and longi- 

 tudinally along middle low cristate with denticulate edge to crest. A 

 short pubescence on some of the joints of the legs. 



Pagurus clypeatus, OLIVIER, Encycl. Meth. Ins., viii., p. 643, pi. 311, f. 1. 

 Cenobita Olivieri, OWEN, Crust. Blossom, p. 84. 



CENOBITA BRFNNEA. 



Regw carapacis antica convexa, nuda, Icevis. Oculifronte vix breviores, 

 Iceves. Pedes spinis conicis perbrevibus apice carneis armati ; antici 

 subcequi, manubus sparsim hirsutis, margine superno dense pilosis, 

 carpo sinistro supra gibboso ; 2di Btii laxe sparsimque hirsuti, tarso 

 subterete, prcelotigo, longiore quam articulus 5tus, infra spinulis male 

 seriatis. 



