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' Acknowledgments. 



I am inexpressibly indebted to Mr. Vanderbilt for the splendid 

 facilities he has placed at my disposal throughout the investigation. 

 His unfailing generosity and helpful criticisms and suggestions during 

 the course of this work have been invaluable. 



During the preparation of the report I have enjoyed full privileges 

 of research in the American Museum of Natural History, and am espe- 

 cially indebted to Dr. R. W. Miner, curator of the Department of 

 Lower Invertebrates, and to Miss Hazel Gay and Miss Margaret Tit- 

 comb, of the Library. I wish to thank Mrs. Helen Ziska, also of the 

 American Museum, for her exquisitely skillful preparation of the line 

 drawings in this report, also for the careful retouching of the photo- 

 graphic illustrations which were made by Mr. Julius Kirschner and 

 Mr. "W. H. Southwick, of the American Museum. I am also under 

 obligation to the authorities of the Tropical Research Station, New 

 York Zoological Society, the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 

 Harvard University, the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 the British Museum of Natural History, the Museum National d'His- 

 toire Naturelle Paris, L 'Institute Oceanographique, Monaco, Stazione 

 Zoologica di Napoli, the Museu Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Co- 

 penhagen Museum and the Calcutta Museum, for friendly assistance 

 in making comparison with various types and rare species in these 

 respective depositories, to each of whom I tender appreciative acknowl- 

 edgment of their courtesies. 



Geographical Distribution of the Species, 

 west indian fauna. 



Stomatopoda. 

 Gonodactylus oerstedii Hansen. 



Three specimens, Bimini, November, 1924; one specimen, Florida 

 Keys, March, 1924 ; two specimens, Florida Keys, February, 1924 ; one 

 specimen. Port Antonio, Jamaica, February, 1926 ; one, Cay Sal Bank, 

 Double Headed Shot Cay, Bahamas, Feb. 18, 1925. 



Pseudosquilla ciliata var. occidentalis Borradaile. 



Five specimens dredged in 30 fms., S. "W. of Marquesas Keys, Fla., 

 March 2, 1924 ; five specimens, Florida Keys, March, 1924. 



Lysiosquilla maculata (Fabricius). 



One large specimen, Florida Keys, March, 1924. Very rare. 



