132 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



The specimen agrees well with the description and figure, 

 excepting the chelipedes ; the slight difference may be sexual 

 (the sex of the the type is not stated). 



The black colour of the immobile finger extends a short distance 

 on the palm ; there are also indications of two faint longitudinal 

 ridges, one in a line with the upper border of the immobile finger 

 and the other opposite the space between the fingers. 



This species is also found in New Caledonia. 



PlLUMNUS VESTITUS, HdSWell. 



Pilumnus vestitus, Haswell, Cat. Amtr Mus., v., Crust., p. 68, 

 1882 ; Miers, in Chall. Rep. Zool., xvii., p. 159, pi. xiv., 

 fig. 3. 



There is one small male in the collection. 



As Dr. De Mann in his Crustacea of the Mergui Archipelago* 

 remarks that a more exact knowledge of this species is desirable, 

 I venture to give a few of the characters which may aid in its 

 future identification, derived from the examination of specimens 

 obtained in Port Jackson. The frontal, gastric, cardiac, and 

 postero-lateral regions of the carapace are smooth, appearing 

 punctate only when the hairs are removed, each hair arising 

 from a small depression, more especially on the posterior portion 

 of the pterygostomial region which is minutely and closely 

 punctate, as is also *ie posterior lateral sides and the hinder 

 margin of the carapace. 



The slightly elevated line marking the posterior border of the 

 carapace is granulose, the line is continued on each side as far as 

 the insertion of the chelipedes but the granules are much smaller 

 and closer. 



The lobes of the front and the external halves of the upper 

 orbital borders are more or less granulose, the lower orbital border 

 with from eight to twelve subspiniform granules. The lower in- 

 ternal and the external angles are distinctly spinose. A sub-hepatic 

 spine is also present. 



The first and second antero-lateral teeth are a little compressed 

 at the base ; they are punctate and granular on their external 

 aspect ; the third tooth is without granules ; each tooth ends in 

 a conical horny point. 



On the upper surface of the carapace, near the antero-lateral 

 teeth are situated a few horny spines and numerous subspiniform 

 granules which extend towards the gastric and cardiac regions. 



In some large male examples, the first and second teeth have 

 each an accessory spine behind. 



The chelipedes are unequal, the right being the largest. 



* Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., xx., 1888, p. 65. 



