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Fam Varunidae. 
1900. Varuninae, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 
LXIX., Pt. 2; pp: 268; 206, 400. 
Alcock identifies this group with the Varunacea and Cyclo- 
grapsacea part, of Milne-Edwards, and the Grapsinae in part 
of Dana, Kingsley, Miers, and Ortmann, with the following 
definition :—‘‘ Front moderately or little deflexed, sometimes 
sublaminar; the sub-orbital crest, which supplements the 
defective lower border of the orbit, is rather distant from the 
orbit and usually runs nearly in a line with the anterior border 
of the epistome ; antennal flagellum usually of good length ; 
the external maxillipeds do not often gape widely, though 
usually there is something of a gap, they are not traversed by 
any oblique hairy crest, their palp articulates with the middle 
of the anterior border of the merus [fourth joint], and their 
exognath is generally broad and is exposed throughout. The 
male abdomen, though not narrow, rarely covers all the space 
between the last pair of ambulatory legs.” 
Gen. Varuna, Milne-Edwards. 
1830. Varuna, Milne-Edwards, Dictionnaire Classique d@’ Hist. 
Nat. Voly XVI, pxyur: 
1886. Varuna, Miers, Challenger Brachyura, Reports, Vol. 
Vi p205- 
1900. Varuna, Alcock, Journ, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. LXIX., 
Pt. 2;p. 400. 
Varuna litterata (Fabricius). 
1798. Cancer litteratus, Fabricius, Supplementum Ent. Syst., 
P- 342. 
1799. Cancer litteratus, Herbst, Krabben und Krebse, Vol. III., 
Pt. 1, p. 58, Pl. 48, fig. 4. 
1802. Grapsus litteratus, Bosc, Hist. Naty Crust., Volal; ps203: 
1830. Varuna litterata, Milne-Edwards, Dictionnaire classique 
d’Hist: Nat:, Vol: XVI., p. 511. 
1835. Trichopus litteratus, de Haan, Crustacea Japonica, decas 
secunda, p. 33. 
