LEUCOSOIDEA. 395 



Rio Janeiro, Brazil, where it is common. 



The hand has five raised lines on its outer surface, the upper of 

 which is a range of small obtusish points; the next, similar points, but 

 broader and sometimes coalescent ; the others, nearly or quite con- 

 tinuous lines, with a crenate margin. Colour, pale yellowish brown, 

 with dark brown transverse lines, or transverse series of spots ; the 

 legs are subochreous, with one or two large purplish blotches in each 

 joint. 



Calappa angustata, Fabricitjs, Supp., 347. 



Hepatus fasciatus, Latreille, Hist. Crust., v. 988 ; Edwards, Crust., ii. 117, and 

 Cuv., pi. 13, f. 2. 



Hepatus chilensis, Edwards. 



Plate 25, fig. 3. 



Valparaiso, Chili. 



Colour of carapax, a yellowish or ochreous base closely covered 

 with a brownish purple reticulation. 



Hepatus chilensis, Edwards, Crust., ii. 117 ; Crust, of D'Orbigny's S. America, 28, 

 pi. 14, f. 1. — The colours in this figure resemble those of a faded specimen, after death 

 or preservation in alcohol. 



Matuta lunaris {Herbst), Leach. 

 Cape of Good Hope ; Tongatabu. 



The carapax of the specimen from Tongatabu is reticulate with 

 dark lines of dots. No such reticulation exists on the South African 

 specimen. 



Cancer lunaris, Herbst, iii. 43, pi. 48, f. 6. 



Matuta lunaris, Leach, Zool. Misc., iii. pi. 127, f. 345 ; Edwards, Crust., ii. 114. 



Matuta victor, Fabr. 

 Singapore, East Indies. 



