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Leptograpsus variegatus (Fabricius).
Cancer variegatus Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. 2, p. 450. 1793. Suppl., p. 343, No. 30.
Grapsus variegatus Latreille, Hist. Nat., Crust., vol. 6, p. 71. 1803.
— Nicolet, in Gay's Hist. de Chili, vol. 3, p. 167. 1849.
— Guerin, Icon. du Regne Animal, Crust., Pl. 6, Fig. 1.
Grapsus personatus Lamarck, Hist. Anim. sans Vert., vol. 5, p. 249. 1818.
— Latreille, Encycl. Meth., vol. 10, p. 147.
Grapsus strigilatus White, in Gray's Zool. Miscell., p. 78. 1842.
— Dieffenbach, New Zealand, vol. 2, p. 265. 1843.
Grapsus planifrons Dana, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., p. 249. 1851.
— Dana, U.S. Expl. Exped., vol. 13, Crust., pt. 1, p. 338. 1852; and Atlas, Pl. 21, Figs. 3a-3e. 1855.
— Cunningham, Trans. Linn. Soc., Zool., vol. 27, p. 492. 1871.
Grapsus variegatus Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. 2, p. 87. 1837.
— Haswell, Cat. Crust. Austr., p. 97. 1882.
— Whitelegge, Mem. Austr. Mus., vol. 2, p. 160. 1900.
— Miers, Cat. Crust. N.Z., p. 36. 1876.
Leptograpsus variegatus Filhol, Mission de l'Ile Campbell, p. 388. 1885.
— Miers, Challenger Reports, Zool., vol. 17, p. 257. 1886.
— Fulton and Grant, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., vol. 19, pt. 1, p. 19. 1906.
— Rathbun, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, No. 1766, pp. 547, 588, Pl. 45, Fig. 2. 1910.
— Chilton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 43, p. 560. 1911.
Grapsus (Leptograpsus) variegatus Borradaile, Brit. Antarct. Exp. 1910. Zool., vol. 3, p. 101. 1916.
Leptograpsus variegatus Rathbun, U.S. Nat. Mus., Bull. 97, p. 234, Pl. 56. 1917.
— Hale, Crust. S. Austr., p. 180. 1927.
Miss Rathbun (l.c., 1910, p. 234) also quotes as synonyms the following names proposed by Milne-Edwards: Leptograpsus ansoni, L. gayi, L. verreauxi. The variability and the wide distribution of this crab account for the extensive bibliography.
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A large male in our collections has the following dimensions:—
| Length of carapace | 58 mm. |
| Breadth of carapace | 68 mm. |
| Length of arm | 92 mm. |
| Length of hand | 51 mm. |
| Breadth of hand | 29 mm. |
Locality.—N.Z. (Milne-Edwards, Filhol).
Bay of Islands (Borradaile).
Cuvier Island (Grenfell and Barr, G. E. Archey).
Bay of Islands, North coast of Mahia Peninsula, Slipper Island (G. E. Archey).
Portland Island, Hawke's Bay (C. Riesop).
Cape Maria van Dieman (T. B. Smith).
Eastern Chicken Island, Auckland (C.C.).
Kapiti Island (Wanganui Museum).
Castlecliff (E.W.B.).
Common on shores of the North Island, one of the most active of our shore crabs.
Distribution.—Kermadec Islands (Hutton, Oliver), Australia, Norfolk Island, Marianne Islands, Shanghai, Chili, Peru, St. Ambrose Islands, Juan Fernandez, Pernambuco, etc.