516 J. R. Henderson — Some "Investigator" TaguriSse. [No. 3. 



Trang: Wray, No. 3185. Perak: King's Collector, No. 6726. 



A species of which the nearest ally is 0. Hookeri, King, which haa 

 however much narrower leaves not tesselate on the lower surface. This 

 is also allied to the Bornean species 0. Beccariana, Stapf, which has 

 however much smaller leaves, not tesselate beneath. 



Natural History Notes from H. M. Indian Murine Survey Steamer 

 'Investigator' Commander C. F. Oldham, R. N., commanding. — 

 Series II., No. 24. Report on the Paguridse collected during the 

 season 1893-94.— By J. R. Henderson, M.B., F.L.S., Fellow of the 

 University of Madras, Professor of Biology in the Madras Christian 

 College.* 



[Reed. 23rd June— Read 1st July.] 



The Paguridse collected by the "Investigator" during the season 

 1893-94, form a small but interesting collection of seventeen species, 

 for the opportunity of examining which I am indebted to my friend 

 Surgeon-Captain A. R. Anderson, I. M. S., the Surgeon-Naturalist of 

 the " Investigator." The small number of species is doubtless to be 

 explained by the fact that no special attention could be paid to shallow- 

 water forms ;' had time and opportunity permitted, the number of these 

 might have been very largely increased. Of the seventeen species taken, 

 two have been left unnamed, as the specimens by which they are 

 represented are either very young or are in an imperfect state of 

 preservation. The collection also contains an nndescribed Glaucothoe 

 which appears to be a larval form, and I have therefore not given it 

 a specific name. Of the fourteen named species no less than seven are 

 described as new, and the remaining seven — six of which are from 

 shallow water — belong to previously known species. The large pro- 

 portion of new species is not remai'kable when the deep-water habitat 

 of the majority is taken into consideration. The fourteen species are 

 included in no fewer than ten genera. 



The specimens were taken at six dredging stations, at five of which 

 the depth exceeded 100 fathoms, so that the collection may fairly be 

 described as a deep-water one. The greatest depth at which Pagurids 

 were taken during the trip was 719 fathoms, off the North Maldive 

 Atoll, where two new species of the characteristic deep-water genus 

 Parapagurus were obtained. The last dredging station on the list is 

 a shallow-water one off the east coast of Ceylon, where from 28 fath- 

 oms six species were obtained, three of which are new. There are 



* Communicated by the Natural History Secretary. 



