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to Wake Island, the Kingsmill Group and the Tuamotus. Bryan reports a 

 variety of the species from Marcus Island. It has also been recorded from 

 West Africa. No records are known for Hawaii. 



Five specimens were taken at Palmyra and 70 at Fanning Island where 

 the species is very abundant under the stones at the shore line on the outer 

 reef. 



Family HIPPIDAE 

 Remipes pacificus Dana. 



Remipes pacificus Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., vol. 13. Crust., p. 407. 1852; pi. 25, 

 fig. 7 a-g, 1855. 



The species has been reported from the Maldive Archipelago and Mini- 

 koi in the Indian Ocean and from a number of localities in the Pacific 

 including New Caledonia, Rotuma, Fiji, Funafuti. Samoa, Hawaii, and 

 from Charles Island of the Galapagos. Five specimens were collected at 

 Palmyra and i at Fanning Island. 



Family COENOBITIDAE 

 Coenobita oliviera Owen. 



Cocnobitci oliz'icra Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., vol. 13, Crust., p. 470, 1852. 



The localities from which the species has previously been reported in- 

 clude Madras, the Nicobars, Funafuti, the Society Islands, the Tuamotus 

 and Fanning Island, Streets recorded the species from Fanning. Bryan 

 collected the species at Marcus Island. No records are from Hawaii. 

 This large land hermit commonly inhabits the shells of species of Turbo. 

 Twenty-nine specimens were collected at Palmyra and 3 at Fanning 

 Island by the expedition of 1913 and 1922. 



Coenobita breVimanus Dana. 



Coenobita clypeata var. brevimanus Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., vol. 13, Crust., 

 p. 473, 1852; pi. 30, fig. 4b, 1855. 



The species is recorded by Dana from Balabac Passage. On Palmyra 

 and Fanning Islands it has the habits of C. oliviera, but is much less 

 numerous. Ten specimens were collected at Palmyra and 3 at Fanning 

 Island. 



Coenobita rugosa Milne Edwards. 



Coenobita rugosa Dana, U S. Expl. Exped., vol. 13, Crust., p. 471, 1852; pi. 30, 

 fig. 1, 1855. 



The species has a wide distribution in the Indian Ocean and is known 

 from the Malay Archipelago and the Sulu Sea eastward to New Caledonia, 



