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MuRSiA CRiSTiMANUS, de Haan. 



1825. Mursic Alains-en-crete^ Desmarest, Consid. gen. Crust., 



p. 431, t. 9, f. 3. 

 1837. ^^ Mursta crisiivianus, Desmarest," de Haan, Fauna 



Japonica, Crust., p. 70. 

 1837. Miirsia cristiata, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., 



V. 2, p. 109. 



1839. '■'■ Mursia crtstii/mna^ Latreille," de Haan, Fauna 



Japonica, Crust., p. 73, t. 13 (mouth-organs). 



1840. Mursia cusfata, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., v. 3, 



p. 627 (index). 

 1843. " Mursia cristimana, Latreille," Krauss, Siidafrik. 



Crust, p. 52. 

 1848. Cryptosoma oricntis, Adams and White, Samarang 



Crustacea, p. 62, t. 13, f. 4, var. (?) Miers, 

 1882. Mursia cristata, Studer, Abhandl. k. Akad. Wiss. 



Berlin, Crustaceen der Gazelle von Westafrika, p. 15. 

 1886. Mursia cristimana^ Miers, Challenger Brachyura, 



Reports, v. 17, p. 291. 



Latreille in 1829 does not mention the specific name of this 

 species, which Desmarest had left vague by giving it only in 

 French. It may no longer be possible to decide the question 

 of priority between de Haan and Milne-Edwards, their 

 respective works having both been published in 1837, but, 

 that being the case, it would be absurd to give such a form as 

 cristiata preference over cristinianus. The opportunity for 

 correcting cristiata into cristata in 1840 was evidently 

 thrown away by the printers, who turned it into custata. 

 The original cristimanus should not be disfigured into 

 cristima7ia. 



Studer, who had under observation a specimen taken fi-om 

 a depth of 50 fathoms at the entrance to Table Bay, says that 

 the animal when alive was bright reddish brown with purple- 

 red tubercles. The colour of the tubercles is moderately 

 persistent, to judge by the specimens sent me, one from False 

 Bay, found in trawl, the other fi-om " South of Saldanha Bay, 

 33^ i4'36"S., 18° 2' 12" E." 



ANOMALA. 



1893. Brachyura anomalay Stebbing, History of Crustacea, 

 Internat. sci. ser., v. 74, p. 133. 



Of the two legions, Drominea and Ranininea, into which 

 this group is divided, the former corresponds with " The 

 Brachyura Primigenia or Dromiacea" of Alcock (Journ. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. 68, pt. 2, No. 3, p. 123, 1899). 



