NO. 4 schmitt: stomatopods 201 



Remarks: In some respects this species seems to resemble L. lati- 

 frons (de Haan)^^ which, however, has a long median spine tipping the 

 rostral plate and which, in a specimen from Nagasaki, Japan, which I 

 have examined, has a wide, more or less evenly rounded convex arc of 

 denticles between the movable submedian spines ; this arc carries about 1 1 

 teeth to the right of a not very conspicuous median notch and 12 to the 

 left of it; there are 4 denticles between the intermediate and submedian 

 spines, of which one is the spine immediately adjacent to the movable 

 submedian spine; a single denticle intervenes between the lateral and 

 intermediate marginal teeth or spines of the telson. Beneath, the telson of 

 L. latifrons has a strong, keeled, and backwardly directed spine behind the 

 anal papilla. On the dorsal surface of the telson of L. latifrons the poste- 

 riorly trispinose median area is more raised and more plane than in L. 

 mccullochae ; to either side of the median area there are only 2 low 

 rounded carinae, each posteriorly drawn out into a stout spine; there is 

 also a blunt-pointed tubercle either side of the telson near its proximal 

 margin about in line with the intermediate tooth or spine of the posterior 

 margin. The raptorial dactylus of L. latifrons is armed with 6 teeth, in- 

 cluding the terminal one. 



68 In von Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Crust., atlas, pi. 51, fig. 3, text, p. 222, 

 1894. Miers (as L. latifrons), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), Vol. 5, p. 25, 1880; (as L. 

 brazieri), pp. 11, 125, pi. 1, figs. 3-6. Kemp, Mem. Indian Mus., Vol. 4, No. 1, 

 p. 128, 1913. 



