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Literature review. — Few species of stomatopods have been re- 

 corded from the island of Madagascar. Hoffmann (1874, 1874a), in 

 papers on the crustaceans of Madagascar and neighboring islands, 

 recorded the occurrence of four species from Mauritius and Reunion 

 Islands but included no records from Madagascar. Lenz and Richters 

 (1881) recorded two species, L. maculata (Fabricius) and G. chiragra 

 (Fabricius), from Madagascar. Miers (1880), in the first review of the 

 stomatopods, listed Odontodactylus scyllarus (Linnaeus) from Mada- 

 gascar, and, in 1884, in a table of the distribution of species taken by 

 the Alert, included Madagascar as a locality for G. chiragra (Fabricius) 

 but mentioned no specimens from that locality in the text. Lenz (1910) 

 reported three species from Madagascar: Squilla nepa Latreille, 

 Pseudosquilla ciliata (Fabricius), and Gonodactylus platysoma Wood- 

 Mason (as G. chiragra var. acutus). 



Kemp (1913), in his survey of the Indo-West Pacific stomatopods, 

 included no material from Madagascar, but he did include earlier 

 references to material from there. Gravier (1920) included records for 

 S. nepa and G. chiragra and in 1935 included records for P. ciliata, 

 G. chiragra, and G. demanii. Also in his paper (1935) he erroneously 

 noted that Lenz (1910) reported G.fimbriatus from Madagascar; Lenz 

 only recorded that species from Zanzibar. 



In an account of the stomatopods of West Africa, Monod (1925) 

 figured the rostral plate of a specimen of L. maculata from Madagascar. 



In 1938 Dollfus recorded Madagascar in his paragraph on the 

 distribution of Gonodactylus spinosus Bigelow (as G. De Mani var. 

 spinosus, p. 215), but no authenticated references to the occurrence of 

 G. spinosus in Madagascar have come to my attention. A closely 

 related species, G. lanchesteri, is recorded from Madagascar proper for 

 the first time in the present report. 



In 1941 Holthuis (p. 287) reiden tilled Hoffmann's specimens of G. 

 chiragra from Reunion as G. jalcatus (Forskal); in his section on 

 material Holthuis recorded these specimens from Reunion but men- 

 tioned Madagascar in the text. Hoffmann mentioned only Reunion in 

 his account. 



Fourmanoir (1952, 1953) recorded G. chiragra from Madagascar and, 

 in the second paper, gave observations on larval stages of that species 

 and S. nepa. Poisson (1949), in a paper on the fauna of the Cymodocea 

 biotope in Madagascar, noted the occurrence of G. chiragra there. 



Humes (1965) recorded the occurrence of an Acanthosquilla from 

 Nosy Be that was a host for a new cyclopoid copepod, Hemicyclops 

 acanthosquillae. The species of Acanthosquilla is described herein as 

 A. humesi, new species. 



