5) 
1875. Matuta victor, Paulson, Crustacea of the Red Sea (in 
Russian), p. 75. 
1877. Matuta victrix, Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. 
Sense. Vol be bP t'5,'p. 243; Pl. 30; figs. 13. 
1886. Matuta victrix, Miers, Challenger Brachyura, Reports, 
Voleec vile. p. 205. 
1896. Matuta victor, Alcock, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 
PI ets 2, pps 56, 100. 
1899. Matuta victor, Nobili, Ann. Mus. Genova, Ser. 2, Vol. XX., 
(40), Nov., ‘Dp. 21. 
Herbst refers to the Species Insectorum, Vol. II., Appendix, 
p. 502 (1781) for the first mention of Cancer victor, Fabricius. 
In my own copy of that work there is no such Appendix, and 
after Herbst no one but Miers appears to give the reference. 
In 1793 Fabricius identifies his species with Forskal’s, from 
whom, therefore, he ought to have adopted the name Junaris, 
a name dating back to the work of Rumphius in 1705 (p. II, 
Pl. 7, letter S). Rumphius explains that in Amboina it was 
known as the full moon’s crab, as being best caught by the 
light of the full moon. Herbst in his third volume, re-describ- 
ing and re-figuring C. lunaris from fine specimens, declares 
that the C. lunaris and C. victor of his first volume are one 
and the same species, which he was led to separate because 
Fabricius originally described a specimen from which the 
legs were missing. He plainly states that his new specimens 
were from the East Indies, yet Bosc, re-naming the species 
Matuta appendiculata, with a reference to “ Herbst. Canc. 
tab. 48, fig. 5’ (by error for fig. 6), says “*On ignore son pays 
natal.’’ Milne-Edwards on the other hand, while making 
Herbst’s earlier C. Junaris a synonym of Matuta victor, assigns 
the name Matuta lunaris to the object of Herbst’s later figure 
and description. In this latter respect he is followed by Miers, 
neither author taking any account of Forskal; but Herbst’s 
second Junaris will be a preoccupied name, if the species really 
be distinct either from Forskal’s species or from Herbst’s 
own first Junaris. In 1817 Leach, Zool. Miscell., Vol. III., 
distinguished four species of Matuta as lunarts, peronit, lesueurit, 
and banksii, suppressing the name victor, as Riippell explains, 
on account of its vagueness. A similar vagueness has since 
been charged against Leach’s own marks of discrimination. 
But in 1830 Riippell adopted the name “ Matuta Lessueri 
(Leach)”” for a Red Sea form, which did not exactly agree 
with any of Leach’s descriptions, although Riippell says, “ It 
is tolerably near to his M. Lessueri; but it is unmistakably 
that species which Forskal described, p. 91. no. 44.” Krauss 
