THE 
INDIAN MONOCULUS. 
Generic Character. 
feel formed for fwimming. 
Body covered by a cruftaceous fhell. 
Eyes (in mold 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 bellowed on this genus of 
infefts 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 diftinguifh 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? 
