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ii. Posfero-lateral border ele- 

 vated posteriorly, gradually 

 subsiding at or behind the 

 great lateral spine, and with 

 an obscurely defined emi- 

 nence : lower surface of hand 

 quite smooth 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 hanJcsii, Leach. 



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



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

 pi. xlviii. fig. 6). 



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



Matuta hanhsii, 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, Be HRan, Faun. Japon. Crust, p. 128. 



Matuta banTcsii, Miers, 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 Ley den Mns. III. 1881, p. 115, and Archiv. 

 fur Naturgesch. LIU. 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, fiir 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. 

 6-7, 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. 



