THE 



INDIAN MONOCULUS. 



Generic Character. 



Feet formed for fwimming. 

 Body covered by a cruftaceous fhell. 

 Eyes (in moll: fpecies) approximated, fixed in the 

 fhell. 



Specific Character, &c. 



MONOCULUS with the anterior part of the 

 fhell lunated, and long, triangular, fharp- 

 pointed tail. 



The INDIAN MONOCULUS, MOLUCCA 

 CRAB, or KING-CRAB. 



The name Monoculus was beftowed on this genus of 

 }nfedts from the circumftance of the eyes being gene- 

 rally feated fo near each other, as, upon a curfory view, 

 to appear as if fingle. In fome fpecies however, (as in 

 the prefent,) it happens that they are really very remote 

 from each other. Of all the animals which modern 

 naturalifts have agreed to diftinguifli by the appellation 

 of Infects, the creature figured on this plate is by far 

 the largeft yet known ; fpecimens being fometimes feen 

 of two feet in length, exclufive of the tail. Linnaeus 



call? 



