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Carcinological Fauna of India. 



ii. Postero-lateral border ele- 

 vated posteriorly, gradually 

 subsiding at or bebind tbe 

 great lateral spine, and witb 

 an obscurely defined emi- 

 nence : lower surface of band 

 quite smootb in the adult 

 male, a little rough in the 

 female and young : — 



a. A distinct spine at the 

 angle of the hand 

 where it comes in 

 contact with the ex- 

 ternal angle of the 

 arm : carapace cov- 

 ered with minute red 



dots M. victor. 



b. Only a tubercle at the 

 angle of the hand 

 where it touches the 

 external angle of 

 the arm : carapace 

 covered with spots, 

 rings, and vermi- 

 cular lines M. lunaris. 



(M. planipes.) 



12. Matuta banlcsii, Leach. 



Cancer lunaris, Rumph, Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, I. p. 11, pi. vii. fig. S. (1705). 



?? Cancer lunaris, Herbst, Krabben I. ii. 140, pi. vi. fig. 4 {nee III. i. 43, 

 pi. xlviii. fig. 6). 



?? Matuta victor, Bosc, Hist. Nat. Crust. I. 225, pi. iv. fig. 3, (nee Fabr.) 



Matuta banksii, Leach, Zool. Miscell III. p. 14. (1817). 



Matuta victor, Desmarest, Consid. Crust, p. 101, pi. vii. fig. 2 (nee Fabr.) 



Matuta victor var. quinta et sexta, De Haan, Faun. Japon. Crust, p. 128. 



Matuta banlcsii, Hiers, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. (2) I. 1875-79 (1876) p. 245, 

 pi. xl. figs. 1, 2, and Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) V. 1880, p. 315, and 'Challenger' 

 Brachyura, p. 295: de Man, Notes Leyden Mus. III. 1881, p. 115, and Archiv. 

 fur Natnrgesch. LIII. 1887, i. p. 389, and in Weber's Zool. Ergeb. Niederl. Ost.-Ind. 

 II. 1892, p. 351 : A. 0. Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. XX. 1890, p. Ill : Zehntner. 

 Rev. Suisse de Zool. II. 1894, p. 183, pi. viii. fig. 15. 



Matuta picta, Hess, Arch, fur Naturges. XXXI. i. 1865, pp. 158, 172, pi. vi. 

 fig. 13 : Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. (2) I. 1875-79, (1876) p. 246, pi. xl. figs. 

 5-7, and 'Challenger' Brachyura, p. 295: E. Nauck, Zeits. Wiss. Zool. XXXIV. 

 1880, p. 46 (gastric teeth): de Man, Notes Leyden Mus. III. 1881, p. 118, and 

 Zool. Jahrbucher, II. 1887, p. 703 : Haswell, Cat. Austr. Crust, p. 135. 

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