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153. Grapstjs maculatus (Catesby). 



G. maculatus (Catesby), A. Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. t. ix. p. 285 (1873). 

 Tuticorin {Thurston). 



Distribution. Atlantic Region (from Florida to the Cape of Good Hope). Throughout 

 the Indo-Pacific Region. 



Genus Plagusia, Latr. 



154. Plagusia immaculata, Lam. 



P. immaculata (Lam.), Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 150 (1878). 



(=: P. depressa, Latr., nee Fabr.). 



Madras, common, associated with Grapsus strigosus (J. R. H.). 



Distribution. Bay of Bengal, Malay Archipelago, Chinese Seas, N. Australia, and the 

 Pacific as far as the Sandwich Is. and the W. coast of Central America. 



Genus Leiolophtts, Miers. 



155. Leiolophus planissimus (Herbst). 



L. planissimus (Herbst), Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 153 (1878), ubi synoa. 



Rameswarani, not uncommon between tide-marks {Thurston, J. R. S.); Madras 

 {J. R. S.). 



Distribution. Atlantic Region (Florida, West Indies, Madeira, &c.) ; Indo-Pacific 

 Region, from the Mascarenes to Korea, the coasts of California, Chili, and New Zealand. 



Genus Varuna, Milne-Edw. 



156. Vakuna litterata (Fabr.). 



V. litterata (Fabr.), Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, Zool. t. xviii. p. 176 (1852). 



Ceylon {Haly) ; Calcutta, several specimens preserved in the same bottle with Dara- 

 telphusa spinigera, a fresh-water species ; Sittoung ; Ganjam {Day). Not uncommon in 

 the backwater at Ennore {J. R. D.). 



If there is no mistake in connection with the locality Sittoung, this species occurs 

 about one hundred miles inland in the Sittoung River, Burmah ; it has previously been 

 recorded from fresh water by Miers and others. 



Distribution. Mauritius, Bay of Bengal, Malay Archipelago, China, Japan, New 

 Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand. 



Genus Metaplax, Milne-Edw. 



157. Metaplax distinctus, Mnne-Edw. 



M. distincius, Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci Nat. ser. 3, Zool. t. xviii. p. 102, pi. iv. fig. 27 (1852) ; De 

 Man, Mergui Crust, p. 158, pi. x. figs. 7-9 (1888). 



Ennore («/". R. H.). 



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