NO. 4 SCHMITT : STOMATOPODS 225 



The rostral plate is similar to that of G. stanschi; the anterolateral 

 angles are anteriorly produced, somewhat narrowly angulate and apically 

 blunt. 



Remarks: The largest specimen of this lot of specimens from La 

 Libertad has the median and intermediate carinae much swollen and 

 "blown up" looking, so much so that the submedian carinae of the 

 other specimens representing the subspecies have been completely merged 

 in the somewhat elongated inflated structure that forms the median 

 carina. This is armed with 3 small spinules or remnants of spinules 

 behind, and has at least one other on either side a little behind the 

 middle of the carina. Of the intermediate carinae each ends in a spinule 

 and has 2 other small ones in a row behind the terminal one. 



The knob has 2 spines on the left half of its posterior margin and 

 the remains of 2 others, it appears, on the right half. 



The crests of the submedian teeth are each armed with 4 spinules 

 in 2 rows. The right lateral lobe or tooth of the margin of the telson 

 is scarcely indicated ; the left one is small and not spined. 



The ocular plates of this specimen are typical of G. festae. 



The specimen may well be an exaggerated and perhaps somewhat 

 abnormal type of G. festae or else of the subspecies. It is more like festae 

 than the other specimens here assigned to this subspecies and may, per- 

 haps, be considered a transitional form linking the subspecies to the 

 species proper. 



