no. 3641 STOMATOPOD CRUSTACEA — MANNING 11 



between spines of basal prolongation, inner larger, apex deflected 

 dorsally. 



Color. — Posterolateral angles of carapace and lateral portions of 

 body black; telson with lateral black patches; nropodal exopod with 

 dark spot at articulation of distal segment. 



Size. — Only specimen examined, a female, broken. Measurements: 

 carapace length 5.6; cornea width 1.3; eye length 1.8; stalk width 1.0; 

 rostral plate length 1.2, width 0.8; fifth abdominal somite width 6.5; 

 telson length 3.8, width 5.4. 



Discussion. — The present broken specimen agrees very well with 

 the limited accounts of S. fallax given by Bouvier (1914, 1915) and 

 the detailed account of S. ambigua given by Hansen (1926). Their 

 accounts differ only in the extent of carination of the telson and the 

 armature of the marginal carinae of the abdomen. Bouvier's figure 

 (1915) indicates that most of the dorsal carinae of the telson are 

 broken, whereas the carinae on the telson of Hansen's specimen are 

 mostly entire. In the broken specimen from the Comoro Islands they 

 are divided proximally, entire distally. On another specimen in the 

 U.S. National Museum, from the Solomon Islands, the carinae of the 

 telson are broken mostly into tubercles. In view of the normal var- 

 iation in telson ornamentation in this genus, the extremes exhibited 

 by Hansen's specimen and Bouvier's as well must be considered 

 within the expected range of variation. 



Although the specimen from the Comoro Islands lacks marginal 

 spines on the fifth abdominal somite, as in S. fallax, the larger speci- 

 men from the Solomon Islands has this spine, which was also present 

 in Hansen's type. 



Finally, the dark lateral portions of the body, mentioned by both 

 Hansen and Bouvier, are present in the specimens from both the 

 Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. 



Distribution. — Indo-West Pacific, from Mauritius (Bouvier, 1914, 

 1915), Madagascar, Dangar Besaar, Indo-Malaya (Hansen, 1926), 

 Viet Nam (Serene 1954), New South Wales, Australia (Stephenson 

 and McNeill, 1955), and the Solomon Islands. 



Clorida miersi, new species 



Figure 3 



Holotype. — 1 d\ 32.8; Banc de Pracel, western coast of Mada- 

 gascar; 65 m; sand; A. Crosnier; Jane 1959; USNM 124091. 



Description. — Eye small, extending to end of first segment of 

 antennular peduncle; stalk slightly inflated, not as broad as cornea; 

 cornea small, bilobed, breadth about two-thirds length of eye; ocular 

 scales rounded, fused along midline. 



