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A. Alcock — Carcinological Fauna of India. 



[No. 2, 



M. victor. 



ii. Posterolateral 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 



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 banJcsii, Leach. 



Cancer lunaris, Kumph, Amboinsche Eariteitkamer, 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). 



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



Matuta oanksii, 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. Japou. Crust, p. 128. 



Matuta banksii, 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 Leyden Mns. III. 1881, p. 115, and Archiv. 

 fur Natargesch. 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. 

 Kev. 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 : B. 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. 



