CRUSTACEA FROM THE BAHAMAS 



81 



Size of ^ 5 J mm. long, 5 mm. broad; of $ 5 mm. long, 6 mm. 

 broad. These specimens have been kindly examined for me by Dr. 

 Ortmann, who finds them identical with Faxon's type from Panama, 

 and also very close to the Cape Verde P. harhatus A. Milne-Edwards. 

 This is the first recorded specimen of P. panamensis from the West 

 Indies. 



42. Petrolisthes armatus (Gibbes) 



Porcellana armata Gibbes, I.e., p. 190, 1850. 



Petrolisthes armatus Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N.Y., VII, 

 p. 73, 1862. 



Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb., X., 1897, p. 280. 



(a) I ^,1 <?. Ocean side of Salt Cay, Feb. 6, 1890. 



Ortmann (I.e. supra) gives full synonymy of this species and makes 

 its distribution circumtropical ; West Indies to Brazil, Gibraltar, Cali- 

 fornia to Panama, Indo-Pacific. 



Collected at Cuba, Jamaica, St. Thomas, Barbadoes. 



43. Petrolisthes tridentatus Stimpson 



Stimpson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N.Y., VII, p. 75, PI. I, 1862. 

 (a) I $ . Along shore, near Nassau, N.P., Feb. 20, 1890. 

 (6) 2 ^ , 5 $ . Salt Cay, N.P., ocean side, Jan. 31, 1890. 

 {c) 2 $ ,1 $. Under sponges, Nassau, N.P., Jan., 1890. 

 Range: West Indies. 

 Collected at St. Thomas, Barbadoes. 



PAGURIDEA 



Family Coenobitidae Dana 

 44. Ccenobita diogenes (Latreille) 



Pagurus diogenes Latreille, Encycl. pi. 284, fig. 2 and 3. 

 Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., II, p. 240, PL 22, 1837. 

 {a) 2 $ . Nicol's Town, Andros Island, March 23, 1890. 

 {h) 2 $ , I 9 . Nassau, N.P., Jan. 16, 1890. 



(c) 2 $. On beach, Quarantine station, near Nassau, N.P., 

 1890. 



(d) 1 9 , juv. In pools and under stones. New Providence and 

 neighboring cays. 



