420 ME. J. E. HENDEESON— A CONTEIBUTION 



219. Pagtjrtjs deformis, Milne-Edw. 



P. deformis, Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, Zool. t. vi. p. 272, pi. xiii. fig. 4 (1836) ; id. 

 Hist. Nat. Crust, t. ii. p. 222 (1837). 



Tuticorin (Thurston) ; Rameswaram (J. JR. II.). 



Distribution. Erom E. Africa to the Pacific (Ousima, Fijis, Tahiti &c). 



220. Pagurtjs varipes, Heller. 



P. varipes, Heller, Sitzungsb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Bd. xliv. p. 244, Taf. i. fig. 1, Taf. ii. figs. 2, 3 

 (1862) ; De Man, Brock's Crust, p. 436 (1888). 



(= ? Cancer pedunculatus, Herbst). 



Tuticorin, a male in the shell of a Bulla ; Muttuwartu Par, a male in the shell of a 

 Fusus (Thurston). 



In both cases the shells carry several examples of an Actinia. As noted by Miers and 

 De Man, this species is distinguished from P. deformis mainly by the absence of a 

 carina from the immobile finger of the larger chelipede, and by having the penultimate 

 joint of the third left leg rounded and not ridged on its outer surface. Both specimens 

 present a white band on a reddish background, encircling the eye-stalks, and in orte the 

 larger chelipede is mottled with violet. P. dearmatus, Henderson, from the Admiralty 

 Is., is a closely allied species, but distinguished by the elongated form of the larger 

 hand, the outer surface of which is uniformly and finely granulated, without tubercles. 

 Herbst's figure of Cancer pedunculatus is not recognizable. 



Distribution. Red Sea (Seller, De Man) ; E. Africa (Hilgendorf) ; Malay Archipelago 

 (Miers, De Man) ; Australia ( White). 



221. Pagurtjs setifer, Milne-Edw. 



P. setifer, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, t. ii. p. 225 (1837) ; De Haan, Crust. Japon. p. 209 

 (1850) ; non P. setifer, Hilgendorf, nee De Man, nee Ortmanu. 



P. scu/ptipes, Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. Dec. 1858, p. 246 ; Ortmann, Zool. Jabrb. 

 Bd. vi. Abtb. f. Syst. p. 287 (1892). 



P. pavimentatus, Hilgendorf, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 816, Taf. iii. figs. 1-5 (1878). 



Tuticorin (Thurston) ; Gulf of Martaban (Oates) ; Madras, not uncommon (J. R. H.). 



Much confusion is apparent in regard to this widely distributed and probably common 

 species. I sent a Madras specimen to Prof. A. Milue-Edwards, who kindly informed 

 me that it was referable to P. setifer, Milne-Edw., and that in his opinion P. sculptipes, 

 Stm., is the same species. I had formerly referred my specimens to P. pavimentatus, 

 Hilgendorf, with the description and figures of which they closely agree, except that in 

 Hilgendorf's figure the left hand is somewhat shorter in proportion to its breadth than 

 is usual in Indian examples. The sculpture of the two terminal joints of the second left 

 ambulatory leg is very characteristic. 



Distribution. E. Africa (Hilgendorf); Japan (De Haan, Stimpson, Ortmann); Australia 

 (Milne- Edwards, Brit. Mns.) ; " Isle of Pines " (Brit. Mus.). 



