Calappid and leucosiid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Kerala, India, with the description of a new species of Mursia Desmarest, 1823, from the Arabian Sea and redescription of M. bicristimana Alcock & Anderson, 1894.
Eleven species of calappid and leucosiid crabs were identified from by-catch landed by trawlers at four fishing ports in Kerala, India that were surveyed in 2007 and supplemented by material obtained in January 2013. Four species are reported for the first time from India, six are new records for Kerala. The status of Mursia bicristimana Alcock & Anderson, 1894, is clarified and the species redescribed. A new species of Mursia is described from the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea.Read about Théodore Géricault in the March 2012 issue of The Artist’s Magazine, where Jerry N. Weiss writes about The Artist’s Left Hand, which Géricault was driven to record while on his deathbed. The following is an excerpt from the article.

I’m waiting for Hollywood to make a movie about Théodore Géricault, the progenitor of French Romanticism. A man subject to deep bouts of depression, Géricault was by turns manically creative and recklessly self-destructive. In his mid-20s, he ended a romance with his married aunt, who bore him an illegitimate child, and fled to Italy. Inflamed by the work of Michelangelo, he returned home and made studies for The Raft of the Medusa, an immense canvas that depicted human suffering in the aftermath of a shipwreck; the shipwreck was