120 MR. J. T. CUNNINGHAM ON MARINE FISHES [Jan. 18, 



paraffin can. On the occasion to which I refer we put down four 

 or five traps, and when they were hauled in the morning each con- 

 tained four or five 'stumps,' the usual price for which is 3d. each; 

 they are used as food and also as bait for inshore fishing, this bait 

 being for some kinds of fishes, such as silver-fish and old-wives, 

 much more effective than the flesh of mackerel or other fishes. 

 Some hermit-crabs were also caught in the traps, but no long-legs, 

 as these creatures seldom or never enter the traps but are 

 occasionally caught on fishing lines ; in the trammel which I 

 shot on the same occasion, besides the fishes which are mentioned 

 elsewhere in this paper, I caught one large specimen of Panulirus 

 but no stumps. 



Family Palinurid^e. 



Panulirus guttatus. 



Palinurus guttatus Latr. Ann. du Museum, iii. p. 393. 



Panulirus guttatus Spence Bate, Voy. Challenger, Macrura, 

 p. 78, pi. Xa; Benedict, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. xvi. p. 540, 

 1893; Bouvier, Bull. Mus. Ocean. Monaco, no. 29, p. 5, 1905. 



This species is mentioned in Melliss' book as the long-legs and 

 Palinurus sp. It has a wide distribution in the Atlantic, occurring 

 on the American coast, on the African coast at the Cape Verde 

 Islands, Liberia, etc. The ' Challenger' specimens described as a 

 variety by Spence Bate were taken at St. Paul's Rocks. It has 

 not been identified at St. Helena before. 



Family Scyllarid.e. 



SCYLLARUS LATUS. 



Scyllarus latus Latr. Hist. Nat. Crust, et Insectes, vol. vi. 

 p. 182. 



Recorded by Melliss under the above specific name on the 

 authority of Spence Bate and the local name ' stump,' but this 

 record seems to have been overlooked by carcinologists. It occurs 

 also in the Mediterranean and at the Canaries (Ortmann, Zool. 

 Jahrb., Abth. Syst. x. p. 269, 1897). 



Family Pagukid^. 



Pagurus imperator. (Text-fig. 6.) 



Pagurus imjierator Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) viii. p. 275, 

 1881. 



This species was hitherto known only from the two type 

 specimens in the British Museum described by Miers, both from 

 St. Helena, one presented by H. E. Dresser, Esq., the other 

 by Melliss. I obtained and brought back a number of specimens 

 caught in the traps set for 'stumps.' They were inhabiting shells 

 of Cassis testiculus, Bursa ccelata, Septa nodi/era, and Eugyrina 



