196 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. XXIV, 



dots. On the anterior part of fehe carapace (sometimes on the pos- 

 terior parts also) there are oblique or transverse bands of white 

 dots, broadly outlined with deep carmine or black and the eyestalks 

 are striped with the same colour. The distal ends of the merus, 

 carpus and palm of the second peraeopods are suffused with orange 

 or orange red and beyond this suffusion a white patch is frequently 

 found. The fingers are spotted with black and often have a blue 

 tinge. The other legs are finely dotted with red or reddish brown 

 and with white. At the distal ends of the telson and each uropod 

 there is a white spot and the setae of the uropods are sometimes 

 dark blue at the base. 



C 367-8/1. Pamban, G.fif Manaar. S. Kemp, Feb., Sixty-three. 



'9J3-. 



91846. Off Sentinel I., Anda- ' Investigator,' Jan., Two. 



mans, 20 fins. 1888. 



C 369/1. Port Blair, Andamans. S. Kemp, March, Five. 



'915- 

 C 370/1. Samoa. Purchased. One. 



The species has been recorded from Tamative Reef, Mada- 

 gascar (Lenz), from Chagos Archipelago, Coelivy , the Seychelles and 

 the Maldives (Borradaile), from Pulo Edam in the B. of Batavia, 

 Amboina and Ternate (de Man) and from Tahiti (Heller). The 

 species is usually, if not always, found on madrepore corals. 



Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) petitthouarsi (Audouin). 



1825. Palaemon petitthouarsi, Audouin, Explic. somm. des planches de 

 Crust., p. 91, in Savigny's Descr. Egypte, pi. x, fig. 3(1809). 



1915. Periclimenes Petitthouarsii, Balss, Denk. math.-naturiv. Kl. K. 

 Akad. Wien XCI, p. 25. 



1917. Periclimenes (Falciger) petitthouarsi, Borradaile, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. (2) Zool. XVII, p. 369. 



192 1. Periclimenes petitthouarsi, Tattersall, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. 

 XXXIV, p. 385. 



For other references see Borradaile. In the series of speci- 

 mens I have examined there are from 6 to 9 teeth on the upper 

 border ' of the rostrum, usually 7 or .8, and from 3 to 5 on the 

 lower border, 2 usually 4. The ring of black pigment noticed in 

 P. spiniferus on the upper side of the cornea is also present in this 

 species. 



C 371/1- Tor, G. of Suez. R. B. S. Sewell, 1916. Twenty-three. 



The species is abundant in the Red Sea and has been recorded 

 by Nobili J from the vicinity of Arzana I. in the Persian Gulf. I 

 have examined specimens from this last locality, belonging to the 

 Paris Museum. 



1 Of twenty-two specimens one has 6 dorsal teeth, fourteen have 7, six 

 have 8 and one has 9. 



2 Of twenty-two specimens four have 3 ventral teeth, seventeen have 4 mid one 

 has 5. 



* Nobili, Bull. sci. France Belgiqtie XL, p. 42 (iy()6). 



