16 Annals of the South African Museum. 



EANINA SCABRA (Fabricius). 



1705. Cancer Raniformis, Eumph., Amboinsche Eariteit-Kamer, p. 13, 



pi. 7, figs. T, V. 



1758. Cancer raninus, Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 625. 

 1775-1781-1793. Cancer raninus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 400 ; 



Mantissa, i., 314 ; Spec. Ins., i., 496 ; Ent. Syst., ii., 438. 

 1776. Hippa scabra, Fabricius, Mantissa, i., 330 (fide Herbst). 

 1789. Cancer raninus, Dixon, A Voyage round the World, Appendix, 



No. 1, p. 353, 2 pis. (unnumbered). 

 1791. Cancer raninus, Herbst, Naturg. Krabben u. Krebse, vol. i., 



pt. 2, p. 3, pi. 22, fig. 1. 

 1791. Cancer scaber, Herbst, loc. cit., p. 11. 

 1793. Hippa scabra, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., ii., 476. 

 1798. Albunea scabra, Fabricius, Suppl., Ent. Syst., p. 398. 



1801. Ranina serrata, Lamarck, Syst. Anim. sans vertebres, p. 156. 



1802. Ranina serrata, Bosc, Hist. Nat. Crust., ii., p. 15, pi. 9, fig. 2. 



1803. Ranina serrata, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., vol. vi., 



p. 133, pi. 51, fig. 1. 



1825. Ranina dentata, Latreille, Encycl. Meth., vol. x., p. 268. 

 1825. Ranina serrata, Desmarest, Consid. gen. Crust., p. 140. 

 1837. Ranina dentata, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., ii., 194, 



pi. 21, figs. 1-4. 

 1841. Ranina dentata, de Haan, Crust. Japonica, decas quinta, p. 139, 



pi. 34, pi. 35, figs. 1-4. 

 1893. Ranina scabra, Stebbing, Hist. Crust., Internat. Sci. Ser., 



vol. Ixxiv., p. 140. 



Those whose ears are titillated by tautology will no doubt prefer 

 to call this species Ranina ranina (Linn.). Those who agree with 

 our scientific forefathers in thinking that, if a specific name be pro- 

 moted to generic rank, the species from which the name is borrowed 

 must itself be renamed, should in the present instance accept the 

 designation Ranina scabra (Fabricius). Its author, no doubt, was in 

 the first instance unaware that his Cancer raninus and his Hippa 

 scabra were one and the same species. Indeed, de Haan seems to 

 have been the first writer to call explicit attention to this fact. 

 Bosc, in 1802, noticed that Herbst's figure was borrowed from 

 " Dickson," who had represented it in his Voyage, pi. 15 and 16 of 

 the French edition. De Haan gives a reference to " Portlock et 

 Dickson, Voyage Round the World, App. N. 1," as though they had 

 used the name Albunea scabra. Yet Bosc, in taking note of 

 Lamarck's Ranina serrata, evidently did not recognise its identity 

 with Albunea scabra, since he says that the species "was forgotten 



