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The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.

Class Crustacea

Class Crustacea.

Since the issue of the foregoing part of this Memoir dealing with the Crustacea, there has appeared a valuable series of articles by Mr. L. A. Borradaile* on Crustacea from the South Pacific, including those taken on Funafuti by Mr. J. S. Gardiner.

Mr. Borradaile conjectures that as Pagurus setifer is so closely allied to P. guttatus, the record of the latter from Funafuti may be a case of mistaken identity. Mr. Whitelegge, on re-examination of the example in question, maintains that it cannot be P. setifer, inasmuch as, among other characters, the left leg of the third pair in the Funafuti crab is setiferous all round and without sculpture; whereas both the description of Milne Edwards and the figure of Hilgendorf, confine the bristles to the margin of the leg of P. setifer. The identification was arrived at after comparison with examples of P. setifer from Mauritius and Fiji.

A Lambrus allied to L. intermedius, Miers, and possibly new, was dredged by Mr. G. Halligan at a depth of two hundred fathoms off Tutaga Islet, Funafuti.

A Cirriped, noted by Schmeltz from the Ellice, Lithothyra rhodiopus, has also been included.

Lambrus sp.
Atergatis floridus, Rumphius.
Actgæ rugata, Adams and White.
Xahthodes lamarckii, Milne Edwards.
Xahthodes nitidulus, Dana.
Zozymus æneus, Dana.
Daira perlata, Herbst.
Etisus laevimanus, Randall.
Etisodes caelatus, Dana.
Carpilodes margaritatus, Milne Edwards.
Pilumnus vestitus, Haswell.
Pilumnus prunosus, Whitehgge.
page 517 Actaeodes speeiosa, Dana.
Phymodius montieulosus, Dana.
Pseudozius caystrus, Adams and White.
Leptodius esaratus, Milne Edwards.
Leptodius sanguineus, Milne Edioards.
Ruppellia annulipes, Milne Edwards.
Eriphia seabricula, Dana
Eriphia laevimana, Latreille.
Trapezia eymodoce, Herbst.
Trapezia ferruginea, Latreille.
Thalamita integra, Dana.
Thalamita admete, Herbst.
Cardisoma hirtipes, Dana.
Oeypoda ceratophthalma, Pallas.
Gelasimus tetragonon, Herbst.
Metopograpsus messor, Forskal.
Grapsus maculatus, Catesby.
Geograpsus crinipes, Dana.
Leiolophus planissimus, Herbst.
Galappa hepatica, Linne.
Cryptodromia japoniea, Henderson.
Remipes pacificus, Dana.
Birgus latro, Linne.
Oenobita olivieri, Owen.
Oenobita clypeata, Milne Edwards.
Oenobita perlata, Milne Edwards.
Oenobita rugosa, Milne Edwards.
Oenobita rugosa, var.
pulchra, Dana.
Diogenes pallescens, Whitelegge.
Pagurus fabimanus, Dana.
Pagurus setifer, Milne Edwards.
Pagurus guttatus, Olivier.
Pagurus euopsis, Dana.
Clibanarius virescens, Dana.
Pagurus corallinus, Milne Edwards.
Clibanarius æquabilis, Dana
Pagurus zebra, Dana.
Pagurus cruentatus, Milne Edwards.
Calcinus elegans, Milne Edwards.
Calcinus gaimardi, Milne Edwards.
Calcinus latens, Randall.
Calcinus herbsti, de Man.
Calcinus berbsti, var.0
lividus, Milne Edwards.
Aniculus typicus, Fabricius.
Galathea affinis, Ortmann.
Petrolisthes lamarckii, Leach.
Petrolisthes lanaarckii, var.
asiaticus, Leach.
asiaticus var.
rufescens, Heller.
rufescens, var.
fiimbriatus, Borradaile.
page 518 Porcellana sollasi, Whtelegge.
Ibaeus antarcticus, Rumphius.
Palinurus gutfcatus, Latreille.
Palæmonella tridentata, Borradaile.
Hippolyte gibberosus, Milne Edwards.
Saron marmoratus, Olivier.
Athanas sulcatipes, Borradaile.
Alphæus edwardsii, Audouin.
Alphteus laevis, Randall.
Alphteus strenuiis, Dana.
Alphteus parvirostris, Dana.
Alphteus collumianus, Stimpson.
Alphteus frontalis, Say.
Alphteus prolificus, Bate.
Alphteus funafutensis, Borradaile.
Betaeus minutus, Whitelegge.
Periclimenes danae, Stimpson.
Corallioearis brevirostris, Borradaile.
Anchistus miersi, de Man.
Callianidea typa, Milne Edwards.
Gondactylus chiragra, Faricius.
Pseudosquilla ciliata, Fahricius.
Cirolana latystylis, Dana.
Athelgue aniculi, Whitelegge.
Lithotrya nicobarica, Reinhardt.
Lithotrya rhodiopus, Gray.

* Borradaile—Proc. Zool. Soc, 1898, pp. 32-38, 457-468, 1000 -1015; and Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), ii., 1898, pp. 876-391.

Schmeltz—Cat. Mus. Godeff., v., 1874, p. 88.