208 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



323. CALCINUS TIBICEN^ (Herbst) Dana 



Cancer tibicen HErbst, Naturg. cl. Krabben u. Krebse, 11, 25, pi. xxiii» 



fig. 7- 

 Pagurus tibicen LatreillE, Milne Edwards, Regne Anim., Crust., pi. 



XLIV, fig. 3. 

 Calcinus tibicen Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Crust., i, 457. 



The colors in life are as follows : Antennae bright red. Anten- 

 nulse, eyes, and ophthalmic scales blue. Carapax bluish-gray. Feet 

 purplish-brown. Hands tipped with white, the larger one more than 

 half white. Ambulatory feet annulated with white near their ex- 

 tremities ; two joints near the base with a longitudinal red stripe. 

 In a variety from Ousima the large hand was wholly white. 



It is a common littoral species everywhere in the middle and west- 

 ern Pacific. Found by us at the Bonins, at Loo Choo, and at 

 Ousima. 



324. CALCINUS LATENS (Randall) Dana 



Pagurus latens Randall, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 135. 



Calcinus latens Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Crust., i, 459, pi. xxviii, fig. 11.. 



Found at Loo Choo. 



325. CALCINUS ELEGANS (Milne Edwards) Dana 



Pagurus elegans Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. des Crust., 11, 229. 

 Pagurus pictus Owen, Beechey's Voy. Z06I., p. 83, pi. xxv, fig. 2. 

 Pagurus decorus Randall, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 135. 

 Calcinus elegans Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Crust., i, 458, pi. xxviii,. 

 fig. 10. 



Characterized by its fine coloration, the tuberculated fingers, and 

 the thick brushes on the under sides of the third pair of feet near 

 their extremities, which are ver\' conspicuous in fresh specimens. 



Genus CLIBANARIUS Dana 



Front acute at the middle. Ophthalmic ring concealed. Eyes 

 long. Aciculum stout. Chelipeds similar in form and subequal : 

 commissure of the hand vertical, with the hinges median, not mar- 

 ginal ; fingers moving in a horizontal plane, with excavated corneous 

 apices. 



^Calcinus Iceviinanus (Randall). 



