110 MATUTA VICTRTX. 



shape of the spines or tubercles with which the latter is 

 armed , and the ridge on the mobile finger being 

 beaded over its whole length or not. I regard as 

 characters of second importance the greater or lesser 

 development of the tubercules on the surface and on the 

 lateral margins of the carapace, and the more or less dis- 

 tinct granulation of the latter and of the outer surface of 

 the hands , while the manner of coloration of the cepha- 

 lothorax must be considered as a character of a very 

 slight value. 



Accepting of the two sections , into which Mr. Miers di- 

 vides the species of Matuta , I admit in the first section 



(A) two species : Mat. victrix Fabr. and Mat. lunaris Herbst , 

 the former with the variety crehrepunctata ., the latter with 

 two varieties . called lineifera and circulifera ; in section 



(B) I admit the Mat. granulosa Miers , hanksii Miers , 

 macidata Miers and pkta Hess , the latter with the variety 

 obtusifrons ; the Mat. laevidactyla Miers is still unknown 

 to me. 



1. Matuta victrix Fabr. 



Matuta victrix, Miers, A revision of the Species of the 

 Genus Matuta , in : Transactions of the Linnean Society of 

 London, 11 Series, Zoology, Vol. I, Part the fifth, pag. 

 243, pi. XXXIX, fig. 1—3. 



The collection of the Museum contains: 



1". Nearly seventy specimens, collected by Messrs. Pollen 

 and van Dam in the Bay of Pasandava, which icliolly agree 

 with the above-mentioned description and figures: the spots 

 upon the carapace being numerous , minute , simple and with- 

 out any tendency to form reticulating lines. The antero-late- 

 ral tubercles are scarcely prominent, those of the surface 

 and of the postero-lateral margins being also little de- 

 veloped. Lateral spines straight in the male , slightly di- 

 rected backwards in the female. 



2". A female specimen from the Red Sea, presented by 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, "Vol. III. 



