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MuRSiA CRISTIMANUS, de Haan. 



1825. Mursic Ma{ns-c}i-crctc\ Desmarest, Consid. gen. Crust., 



p. 431, t. 9, f 3. 

 1837. "■ Miirsta cristi)iMiius, Desmarest," de Haan, Fauna 



Japonica, Crust., p. 70, 

 1837, Mursia cristiata^ Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat, Crust., 



V. 2, p. log, 



1839, " Mursia cristtJiiana, Latreille," de Haan, Fauna 



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



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



p. 627 (index). 

 1843. " Mursia crisfiinana, Latreille," Krauss, vSiidafrik. 



Crust., p. 52. 

 1848. Cryptosoina oriiutis, 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 cristimanus. 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 

 cristimana. 



Studer, who had under observation a specimen taken from 

 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 from " South of Saldanha Bay, 

 33^ i4'36"S., 18° 2' 12" E." 



ANOMALA. 



1893. Brachyura anomala, 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). 



