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In each the hocly has hecome greatly compressed, with the carapace, thoracic sterna, and 

 abdominal tergites proportionately widened, and the chelipedes so formed as to adapt 

 themselves to the closing of the aperture. They are : — Diogenes miles (Herhst), Ani- 

 culus strigatus (Herhst), Pagurus platy thorax*, Stm., from the Loo Choo Is., and Cliba- 

 narius eurgsterntts, Hilgendorf, from Mozambique and the Malay Archipelago. In the 

 last-mentioned sr>ecies the flattening is less apparent. 



Distribution. East Indies {Herhst); Ibo, E. Africa (Hilgendorf); Tahiti {Ortmann). 



Genus Clibanarius, Dana. 



225. Clibanarius clibanarius (Herbst). 



Pagurus clibanarius (Herbst), Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, t. ii. p. 2:27 (1837). 

 Clibanarius vulgaris, Dana, Crust. U.S. Explor. Exped. pt. i. p. 462 (1852). 



Madras, not uncommon {J. B. H.). 



The colour (in spirit) is a reddish orange, and the legs show indistinct and pale 

 longitudinal bands. My largest specimen, a male, is 70 mm. long, the right chelipede 

 45 mm. long. 



Distribution. ?E. Africa (Bianconi, Krauss); Penang (Brit. litis.); Singapore 

 (Walker); Borneo ( Miers) ; ? Hong Kong and Gaspar Strait (Stimpson). 



226. Clibanarius infraspinatus, Hilgendorf. 



C. infraspinatus (Hilg.), De Man, Mergui Crust, p. 237 (1888). 



Madras, less common than the former species (J. B. H.). 



De Man proposes to unite this species with the preceding, but in my opinion they are 

 probably distinct. I have never seen a specimen that I had any difficulty in referring 

 to one or the other form ; they occur in the same locality, and in examining a number of 

 specimens I find the characters of each constant at all stages of growth. In C. infra- 

 spinatus the ground-colour is paler, the banding more distinct, a strong conical tubercle 

 is present on the under surface of the merus of the chelipedes, at the inner proximal 

 margin of the joint, and the size is much less than in the other species. In C. cliba- 

 narius the body and legs, generally, carry much more numerous and longer hairs, the 

 spinose tubercles on the upper surface of the chelipedes are more strongly marked, and 

 there is no trace of the inferior meral tubercle. 



Distribution. lied Sea (Ortmann) ; Bombay (Brit. Mus.) ; Mergui (De Man) ; Singa- 

 pore (Hilgendorf, Brit, litis.); Philippines (Brit. Jlus.) ; Sydney (Ortmann). 



227- Clibanarius padavensis, De Man. 



C.padavensis, De Man, Mergui Crust, p. 242, pi. xvi. figs. 1-5 (1888). 

 Tuticorin (Thurston); Rameswaram, Ennore, Madras (J. B. H.). 



* This species presents many of the characters of A. strigatus (Herbsty^to judge from Stimpson "s short diagnosis: 

 but, as no mention is made of the strigose lines on the chelipedes and legs, it is probably distinct. 



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