472 CRUSTACEA. 



Var. pulchra. Plate 30, fig. 2 a, b, represents a specimen from 

 Pitt's Island, Kingsmill's Group, Pacific Ocean; it is probably a 

 variety of the rugosa. 



Length, two inches. Carapax, having a tinge of blue, with a faint 

 blush of red on hinder part ; abdomen, sulphur-yellow on outer sur- 

 face; legs, mostly bluish, with a large purplish spot on each joint; 

 peduncles of eyes, burnt sienna ; eyes, reddish burnt sienna; antennae 

 deep red, a little brownish. Margin of anterior part of carapax 

 hairy. Antennae hardly longer than carapax ; inner more than two- 

 thirds the length of the outer. Legs scabrous; also, somewhat hairy, 

 excepting anterior pair and third pair left side. Hand scabrous in- 

 side and outside from acute granules on the surface; fingers towards 

 tips with the granules black and more numerous than elsewhere. A 

 dense tuft of auburn hair on inner surface of hand, near upper 

 margin. 



CENOBITA CARNESCENS. 



Regio carapads antica plana, scabricula, lateribus quoque planis. Oculi 

 fronte longiores, plus duplo longiores quam alti, valde compressi, 

 lamind basali triangulatd, acutd. Pedes antici incequi, sinistro 

 majore, super/idem granuloso, carpo paulo breviore quam mamis, 

 brachio apicem oblique plano-truncato. Pedes quatuor sequentes fere 

 nudi, parce pubescentes, articulo ultimo scabriculo. 



Anterior part of carapax flat, finely rough, sides also flat. Eyes 

 longer than front, more than twice as long as high, very much 

 compressed, basal scale triangular, acute. Anterior feet unequal, 

 left hand the larger, surface a little rough, carpus somewhat shorter 

 than hand, arm with apex obliquely flat truncate. Four following 

 feet nearly naked, sparingly pubescent, last joint finely scabrous. 



Plate 30, fig. 3 a, animal, natural size ; b, animal, withdrawn into 

 the shell, showing how the shell is closed by the feet. 



Pacific, in the Paumotu Archipelago, at Honden Island ; also, at 



