NO. 4 schmitt: stomatopods 173 



cornea bilobed and set very obliquely on stalk and projecting con- 

 siderably beyond outer lateral margin of stalk, obliquity the reverse 

 of that usually found, the inner margin of the stalk shorter than the 

 outer. Narrow, transverse, subrectangular rostral plate armed with 3 

 sharp spines, a long, keeled, anterior median one reaching about as 

 far forward as the corneae and one at each anterolateral angle, di- 

 rected laterally.48 Anterior margin of carapace either side of rostral 

 plate straight, sloping toward corresponding anterolateral angle of 

 carapace, anterolateral angles rounded. Raptorial dactylus with 3 

 teeth, including terminal one. Body subcylindrical, not as much com- 

 pressed as in preceding species, carapace somewhat more flattened; 

 maculations, when present, large and irregular, on carapace more or 

 less confined to posterolateral portions lessonii, p. 175 



B2. M 



less confined to posterolateral portions lessonii, p. 175 



iddle spine of the 3 forming the basal process of uropod the 



largest. 



Telson, other than the lateral marginal carina, has one smooth-crested 

 carina either side of median one, and at least 2 or 3 pairs of feebler 

 denticulated carinae or rows of tubercles in addition. Submedian 

 carinae of 6th abdominal somite not particularly indicated except for 

 a pair of submedian spines on the posterior margin of the somite, 

 intermediate and lateral spines also present. Eyestalk cylindrical, cor- 

 nea set very obliquely on stalk, with median band but not bilobed, 

 projecting very little beyond outer lateral margin of stalk. Rostral 

 plate triangular to subcordiform, wider than long, apically subacute. 

 Anterior margin of carapace either side of rostral plate slightly con- 

 cave, anterolateral angles blunt. Raptorial dactylus with 7 to 8 teeth, 

 including the terminal one. Body depressed, flattened ; mottled to 

 some degree, perhaps, but not maculated, prominent blackish eyespot 

 at each posterolateral angle of 5th abdominal somite, veleronis, p. 176 



Pseudosquilla oculata (Brulle) 



Squilla oculata Brulle, in Webb and Berthelot, Hist. Nat. lies Canaries, 

 ZooL, Vol. 2, Pt. 2, Crust., p. 18, fig. 3 on accompanying plate, 

 1835-44. 



Pseudosquilla oculata Rathbun, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., Vol. 2, p. 155, 

 1900. Kemp, Mem. Indian Mus., Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 102, 1913, 

 and synonymy. Bigelow, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, Vol. 72, No. 4, 

 p. 165, fig. 8, 1931, and synonymy. Edmondson, Occas. Paps. 

 Bishop Mus., Vol. 7, No. 13, p. 290, fig. U, 1921. 



48 These laterally directed anterolateral spines of the rostral plate are only 

 well developed in large specimens. In medium-sized and small ones these angles, 

 though they may be laterally but little produced and subspiniform, are very rarely 

 only indicated, usually acute. 



