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Family PAauEiDEA. 

 Genus Pagtjeus, Dana. 



128. Pagtjeus punctulatus, Oliv. 



Pagurus punctulatus, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Crustaces, t. ii. 

 p. 222. 



Pagurus punctulatus, Miers, Voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert,' 1884, p. 555. 



One specimen was collected in ElpMnstone Island Bay, and a 

 smaller one at Owen Island. 



In these specimens the eye-peduncles are nearly as long as 

 tlie anterior margin of the carapace, whereas Milne-Edwards 

 describes the eye-peduncles as being " beaucoup moins long " 

 than that margin. I am disposed therefore to regard his descrip- 

 tion as inexact, because these specimens in their other details 

 agree perfectly with the description in the ' Histoire Naturelle 

 des Crustaces.' The eye-peduncles surpass the peduncle of the 

 outer antennse by the length of the cornea, and they are a little 

 shorter than the peduncle of the inner antennae. 



Pagurus punctulatus has been recorded from nearly the whole 

 Indo-Pacific region, from the Eed Sea and Madagascar to 

 Australia and the Sandwich Islands. 



129. Pagueus depoemis, M.-Edw. 



Pagurus deformis, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. des CrustacSs, t. ii. 

 p. 222 ; Hilgendorf, Monatsber. Berliner Akademie, Nov. 1878, p. 818. 



One female specimen, inhabiting the shell of a Turbo, was 

 found at Owen Island. 



Pagurus deformis has been recorded from the coast of Mozam- 

 bique {Hilgendorf), the Mauritius and the Seychelles {Milne- 

 Edwards), Timor, Amboina, the Anaehoretes, New Ireland 

 {Hilgendorf), and the island of Oushima, Japan {Stimpson). 



It is a little doubtful whether the specimen collected at Tahiti 

 and described by Heller (Crustaceen der Novara-Eeise, p. 86) 

 really belongs to this species, because Heller describes the ter- 

 minal joint of the third pair of ambulatory legs as being twice 

 as long as the penultimate, whereas in the true P. deformis the 

 terminal joint does not attain that length. 



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