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NOTES ON CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA. 



1860-62. The specimens which I have received, and which are said to 

 Fossil crabs. be obtained in the island of Hainan and on the opposite shores 

 of Kwang-si, belong. to a single species, MacropTithalmus Latreillii y 

 Ed\v., (Gonoplax Latreillei, Desm.), with the exception of one 

 which is referable to a species of the genus Cancer not yet described. 

 Probably identical with M. Latreillii is the fossil M. Desmarestii, 

 described and figured by M. Lucas in the Annales de la Soctite' 

 Entom-ologique de France}- Nor is the animal found merely in 

 the fossil state, for, as pointed out to me by Mr. H. Woodward, 

 of the British Museum, who has examined the subject with 

 care, a recent species found in the Philippines, and named by 

 Mr. Adam White M. serratus, 2 appears to possess no character 

 that can distinguish it from the fossil form. 



My friend M. Rondot, of Paris, obtained from the Chinese 

 pharmaciens at Canton, in addition to specimens of the Macroph- 

 thalmus, a fine example of Portunus (Lupa) leucodon, Desm., 

 recently shown by Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards 3 to be identical 

 with the Scylla serrata of De Haan 4 still found living in Japan, 

 the Philippines and at Port Natal. It is a much larger crab than 

 the others, measuring seven to eight inches across the carapace. 

 There are several very perfect specimens of it, reputed to be 

 from the Philippines, in the geological collection of the British 

 Museum. 



-r_ -i II * 



SMh-yen. sfl jfS Sh%h-yen ; Fossil Shells ; Tatarinov, Cat. Med. Sinens., 



p. 54.; Pun-tsaou, Fig. 65. 



These fossils have been examined and described by Mr. Thomas 

 Davidson, to whose account and figures in the Proceedings of 

 the Geological Society (June 15, 1853), I refer the reader who 

 wishes for full details. The actual specimens are in the British 

 Museum. Mr. Davidson remarks that the specimens belong to 

 eight Devonian species, seven of which are common to several 

 European localities, among which may be mentioned Ferques 



' * Vol. viii. Serie 1, 1839, p. 567, t. 20. 



2 British Museum List of Crustacea, London, 1847, p. 37. 



3 Annales dcs Sciences Naturelles, Zoolog., torn. xiv. (1861), pi. i. and ii 

 See another paper by Alph. Milne-Edwards in tome xviii. (1862) p. 31. 



4 Fauna Japoniea, 1835. 



