‘FROM THE MONTE BELLO ISLANDS, “657 
Family PorRTUNIDA. 
THALAMITA DISPAR, hom. n. (PI. I. fig. 4.) 
Thalamita savignyt de Man (not A. Milne-Edwards), Zool. 
Jahrb., Syst., vol. viii. 1895, p. 564. 
Monte Bello Islands; 3¢. 
Dimensions. Type and largest 3: length of carapace 15:2 mm.; 
width 25°4 mm. 
This is the same species as that described by de Man (oe. cit.), 
for I have at hand for comparison one of his specimens from 
Palos Bay, West Celebes ; but it cannot be the true savignyi of 
A. Milne-Edwards (Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. x. 1861, 
p- 357), because in the figure of this in Savigny’s ‘Egypte’ (Crust. 
pl. iv. fig. 4) the inside of the hand shows coarse granules. 
Carapace pubescent except on the elevated ridges. These are 
prominent; the posterior one across the cardiac region with a 
smal] piece on the branchial region, though bare and elevated, 
lacks the distinct granulated edge which characterizes the other 
ridges. Lobes of front separated by an open median slit. Fourth 
tooth of lateral margins absent. Five crests on upper and outer 
surface of palm, the two uppermost crests each with three spines, 
of which the terminal one is short and subacute; third crest 
tuberculate, fourth and fifth obscurely granulate, the fifth very 
finely so; the first three interspaces each with some coarse 
granules and also pubescent ; in the smallest of the three speci- 
mens, the third interspace is smooth; there may be a line of 
pubescence above the lowest crest but it is not constant. 
The above characters suffice to differentiate this from other 
members of the admete group. 
The Celebes specimen is an adult female smaller than any of the 
males. It differs from them in having a very shallow and small 
median emargination in the front. There is a minute rudiment 
of a fourth lateral tooth on the right side only. 
Family XANTHID&. 
CARPILODES RUBER A. Milne- Edwards. i 
Carpilodes ruber A. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. 
Nat. Paris, vol. i. 1866, p. 228, pl. xi. figs. 4-40. ; 
Without special locality ; 2 9 immature, 13 mm. and 14°4 mm. 
wide. They retain a deep crimson colour in alcohol. 
Home Lagoon, Hermite ; under stones; July and August, 1912; 
No. 108: 3 2 (1 mature, 2 young). 
ATERGATIS OCYROE (Herbst). 
Atergatis floridus Aleock, Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvii. 
1898, p. 98. 
Without special locality: 1 g,1 2 juv. 
