ANOMOURA PAGUKIDEA. 451 



Pagurus guttatus (Olivier). 

 Plate 28, fig. 3 a, animal, natural size ; &, leg of fourth pair. 

 Upolu, Navigator Islands, from the coral reef. 



The legs are rounded in all their joints, and the tarsus of the second 

 and third pairs is much longer than the preceding joint, terete and 

 curved. The basal part of the peduncles of the eyes projects nearly 

 their diameter beyond the front. Colour of the carapax anteriorly, 

 greenish blue ; posteriorly, blue over the central area ; yellowish along 

 the middle, and laterally, first nearly vermilion, and gradually changing 

 to clear brownish red spotted with white. Legs deep maroon, spotted 

 with white, excepting fourth joint, which is blue above. Base of 

 peduncles of eyes and base of outer antennae, same colour as legs ; 

 rest of peduncles, a purplish umber ; first antennse, dull greenish ; 

 flagellum of second antennae and last joint of base, dull green. Abdo- 

 men, deep brownish red spotted with white. 



Carapax broad obcordate, transversely divided by a narrow furrow; 

 anterior portion marked with a large lyriform area. Anterior portion 

 of lateral margin with a few tufts of bristly hairs, and similar hairs 

 but shorter on the base of the ocular peduncles and outer antennae. 

 Peduncles of eyes subcylindrical, a little larger at extremity. Legs 

 smooth, a little spinous at apex of joints, covered with hairs of same 

 colour as leg, in tufts and scattered ; on left leg of third pair much 

 more densely hairy than on right leg of same pair, and hairs mostly 

 on superior and inferior margins. 



Flagellum of second antennae longer than carapax. 

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Pagurus punctulatus, Olivier. , 

 Plate 28, fig. 4 a, carapax, natural size ; b, side view of same. 

 China Seas. 

 The left hand is short and large, with the outer surface regularly 



