On the crustacea collected during the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula : together with a note on the genus Actaeopsis. Pt. I. [Brachyura, Stomatopoda, and Macrura] / by W.F. Lanchester.

Lanchester, William Foster.

Date:: 1901

Credit: On the crustacea collected during the 'Skeat expedition' to the Malay peninsula : together with a note on the genus Actaeopsis. Pt. I. [Brachyura, Stomatopoda, and Macrura] / by W.F. Lanchester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$which the last is more pomted and more clearly defined than the others. The carapace and the outer face of the wrists and hands of the chelipedes are clothed with short bristles between and around the tubercles, thickly on the chelipedes, but very scantily on the carapace; these bristles are also placed rather thickly on the upper borders of the carpus and propod us of the walking-legs. Other finer and somewhat longer hairs are scattered over the whole animal, noticeably on the upper borders of the meropodites of all the legs. The inner faces of the chelipedes and lower faces of the legs are quite smooth, except for a few hairs. General colour, in formol, pinkish red blotched with bluish white. Dim. 35 X 27. XII. Genus Epixanthus Heller. 16. Epixanthus feontalis M.-Edw. Ozius frontalis, M.-Edw. Hist. Xat. Crust, i. p. 406 (1834). Epixayitlms frontalis, A. M.-Edw. Nouv. Arch. Mus. ix. p. 241 (1873); Alcoc'k, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Ixvii. 2, p. 185 (1898). Loc. ? Two males. Dim. 29*5x18. 20-5x13. XIII. Genus Actumnus Dana. 17. Actumnus setifee de Haan. Cancer {Pilumnus) setifer, de Haan, Crust. Japon. p. 50, pi. hi. fig. 3 (1839). Actumnus setifer, A. M.-Edw. Xouv. Arch. Mus. i. p. 287, pi. xviii. fig. 5 (1865); Miers, ‘ Alert’ Crust, p. 225 (1884). Loc. Pulau Bidan, Penang. A male. Dim. 20 X 15. XIV. Genus Pilumnus Leach. 18. Pilumnus yespeetilio Eabr. Cancer vcspertilio, Eabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 338 (1798). Pilumnus vesper Elio, M.-Edw, Hist. Nat. Crust, i. p. 418 (1834) ; Alcock, Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, Ixvii. 2, p. 192 (1898). Loc. Kelantan. Two from Pulau Bidan, Penang. Twenty males and twenty-four females, one of the latter with ova. Dim. S 19*5 X 15. S' 24 x 19. S 23 x 17. 8 18 x 4. cf 13*75x10. cf 10x7. $ 20x15*5. $ 18x13. $ 16x12. 2 16x11*5. 5 13*5x9. 2 with ova 20 x 15*5. 19. Pilumnus sluiteei de Man. Pilumnus sluiteri, de Man, Weber’s Zool Ergebn. ii. p. 283, pi. i. fig. 2 (1892); Alcock, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Ixvii. 2, p. 194 (1898). Froc. Zool. Soc.—190], Vol. II. No. XXXV^I. 36 [9]$