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Show 594 MR. L. A. BORRADAILE ON CRUSTACEANS [May 22, inner pair much larger than the outer; the carapace irregularly granular, the granules largest just behind the frontal lobes, the branchial regions rugose; the sides with two teeth behind the orbital angle, the second tooth low and blunt; the walking-legs long and slender, their meropodites rugose with denticulate edges, bearing at the outer end two teeth above and none below and on the hinder side a low, rounded ridge, their carpopodites with two sharper ridges, their propodites long and flat, their dactylopodites broad and flat, diminishing gradually to a long straight spine, and having tbe edges hidden by a thick fur; the upper side of the hand in both sexes with two subparallel denticulate ridges, the inner less regular than the outer, and the two meeting at both ends so as to enclose an oval field, in which two or three tubercles may lie; the fingers rather shorter than the palm in the female, distinctly so in the male." The third maxilliped and the abdomen of the male are shown in figs. 8 a and 8 b respectively. Length 31 m m . Breadth of fronto-orbital border 27 m m . The animal is described in Mr. Gardiner's notes as a " red tree-crab." The colour in spirit is an orange-yellow. This species is not far from S. oceanica de Man, 1889, in Group II. of that author's classification of the genus [Zool. Jahrb. ii. Syst. 3, p. 639 (1887)], but differs in the ridges on the hand and in the more hairy dactyles. Funafuti; three males, three females. Botuma ; three males, one female. Subfamily GECARCININJE. Genus CARDIOSOMA Latr., 1825. 73. CARDIOSOMA HIRTIPES Dana, 1852. Cardiosoma hirtipes, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exped., Crust, i. p. 376, pi. xxiv. fig. 2 (1852); de Man, Arch. Naturg. liii. 1, p. 349, pi. xiv. fig. 3 (1887); Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. vii. Svst, p. 737 (1894) ; Whitelegge, M e m . Austral. Mus. iii. 2, p. 138 (1897). Funafuti; three males, five females. Botuma ; one male, one female. 74. CARDIOSOMA CARNIFEX (Herbst), 1796. Cancer carnifex, Herbst, Naturg. Krabb. u. Krebse, ii. 6, p. 163, pi. xii. fig. 7 (1796). Cardiosoma carnifex, Latreille, Encycl. Meth. x. p. 685 (1825); Miers, ' Chall.' Brachyura, p. 220 (1886). Cardiosoma guanhami, var. carnifex, Ortmann, Zool. Jahrb. vii. Syst. p. 735 (1894). Cardiosoma obscura, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 375, pi. xxiv. fig. 1 (1852). Rotuma; one female. |