138 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XXIV, 



Under the subgeneric headings synoptic tables to the majority 

 of the known species will be found. In Periclimenes s.s. 20 species 

 are recognised, in Periclimenaeus 3 species and in Ancylocaris 44 

 species. The following are omitted from these tables : — 



Anchistia aurantiaca Dana, U. S. Expior. Exped., Crust. I, p. 581, 

 pi. xxxviii, figs. 2a-d (1852). 



The generic position of this species is very doubtful and it is 

 not certain that it belongs to the Pontoniinae. The mouth-parts 

 have apparently not been examined and the telson is described 

 as "a little hairy at tip, with two short spinules." Dana's 

 specimens were found at the Fiji Is. 



Anchistia danae Stimpson, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philadelphia, i860, 

 p. 108. 



This species, from Tahiti, will probably never be recognized 

 with certainty. There is no description of the second peraeopods 

 and it is uncertain whether the posterior dactyli are simple or 

 biunguiculate. The specimens doubtfully referred to this species 

 by Borradaile ' perhaps belong to the P. grandis section of Ancy- 

 locaris, but the description is insufficient. 



Anchistia brachiata Stimpson, loc. cit. supra, p. 108. 



Found at Port LJoyd in the Bonin Is. There is no descrip- 

 tion of the last three peraeopods. 



Anchistia notata Heller, Crust. 'Novara' Exped., p. 109, pi. x, fig. 



3 (1865). 



Described from a specimen without the second peraeopods 

 obtained at the Nicobars. 



Periclimenes parasiticus Borradaile, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) II, 

 p. 384 (180,8) and in Willey's Zool Results, p. 407, pi. xxxvi, 

 fig. 4 (1899); Nobili, Ann. Mus. civ. Genova (2) XX, p. 235 



(1899)- 



The description of this species is most inadequate. I examined 

 the type-specimens in the Cambridge Museum, but found that 

 all the legs were missing except those of the first pair. The 

 species was found at New Britain on a black starfish belonging to 

 the genus Linckia. 



Periclimenes hertwigi and gorgonidarum Balss, Abhandl. ninth. -phys. 



Kl. K. buyer. Akad. Wiss. Suppl. Bd. II, pp. 49-52, text-figs. 



28-32 (1914). 



Further particulars of these two remarkable species are 

 required before their position can be determined. It is possible, as 

 Borradaile has remarked, that they do not belong to the Pontonii- 

 nae. 



I Borradaile, Proc. Zool. .Sue. London, \8g8, p. roi>4, pi. Ixiii, figs. 4, 4a, b. 



