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tabu, the Tuamotus and northward to Hawaii. One specimen was collected 

 at Fanning Island. 



Family CALAPPIDAE 



Calappa spinosissima Milne Edwards. 



Cahif'f'a spi>iosissima Akock, Journ. .•\siat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 65, p. 144, 1896. 



The previous records are from the Indian Ocean. Two specimens were 

 collected at Palmyra Island. 



Family LEUCOSIIDAE 

 Nucia speciosa Dana. 



Xiicia sfcciosu Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., vol. 13. Crust., p. 397, 1852; pi. 25. 

 fig. 5, 1855. 



The previous record of the species is from Hawaii. It has frequently 

 been taken on Waikiki reef, Honolulu. 



One specimen was collected at Fanning Island. 



Family HAPALOCARCINIDAE 

 Hapalocarcinus marsupialis Stimpson. 



Hapalocarcinus marsupialus Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 

 412, 1856-58: Caiman, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zoology-, vol. 8, p. 43. 1900: Potts. 

 Papers from Dept. marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton, vol. 8, p. 35. 1915." 



The species is known from the Indian Ocean, Torres Straits and gen- 

 erally through the Pacific northward to Hawaii where it is very abundant. 

 It was first described by Stimpson from Hilo, Hawaii. The female crab 

 forms galls on certain species of corals of the genera Pocillopora, Seria- 

 topora, Stylophora, Sideropora and Millepora. Caiman states that coral 

 galls, possibly due to this species, have also been reported from the Red 

 Sea, Ceylon and the China Sea. Two specimens were collected at Palmyra 

 Island. 



Tribe ANOMURA 



Family PORCELLANIDAE 

 Petrolisthes speciosa (Dana). 



PovccUomi speciosa Dana. U. S. Expl, Expcd.. vol. 13. Crust., p. 417, 1852; pi. 26, 

 fig. 8, 1855. 



The recorded range of the species seems to be from Balabac Straits 

 through the Pacific to Hong Kong, Japan, the Bonin Islands and eastward 



"The paper bj' Potts includes investigations on the development, life history and 

 habits of this gall-forming species. 



