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of median carina, outlined in dark pigment; uropod with dark color 

 on distal half of proximal segment, inner half of distal segment of 

 exopod, and most of endopod. 



Size. — Males, TL 15.5-38.2; females, TL 16.5 (largest specimen 

 broken); juvenile, TL 12.1. Other measurements of male, TL 38.2 

 carapace length 7.7; cornea width 1.1 ; stalk width 1.3; eye length 2.2 

 rostral plate length 1.3, width 1.6; fifth abdominal somite width 10.3 

 telson length 6.2, width 8.4. 



Discussion. — It is with some hesitation that I assign these speci- 

 mens to Brooks's species, one of the poorest known in the genus. The 

 specimens agree in all respects with his account except that the 

 lateral process of the fifth thoracic somite is inclined slightly forward 

 and there are more spines on the inner margin of the basal prolonga- 

 tion of the uropod. Although Brooks indicated that the ventral surface 

 of the telson of the type was smooth, examination of that specimen 

 revealed a low postanal carina that is present in the Madagascar 

 specimens as well. 



Clorida chlorida most closely resembles C. microphthalma (H. Milne- 

 Edwards), but the latter has longer, slender eyes, a more elongate 

 rostral plate, a broader carapace, with the lateral margins convex or 

 straight, and a shorter lateral process on the fifth thoracic somite. 

 The differences in shape of the lateral margin of the carapace were 

 noted by R. P. Bigelow in his unpublished work on the Philippine 

 stomatopods; it seems to be a useful character to distinguish these 

 two similar species. 



The young specimens are assigned to this species on the basis of 

 their inflated eyes, the same number of teeth on the claw (5), their 

 short rostral plate, and, in the cases of the two larger specimens, a 

 color pattern identical to that of all adults examined. 



Kemp (1913) has discounted Lanchester's (1901) record of the 

 species from the Malay Peninsula, which was based on a specimen 

 with submedian carinae on the abdomen. 



Distribution. — Indo-West Pacific, from Amboina (Brooks, 1886) 

 and off Madagascar, in depths between 27 and 64 m. 



Clorida fallax (Bouvier, 1914) 



Figure 2 



Squilla fallax Bouvier, 1914, p. 699; 1915, p. 308, figs. 39-42.— Barnard, 1950, 

 p. 841 [footnote and key only]. — Serene, 1954, p. G. — Stephenson and McNeill, 

 1955, p. 241. 



Squilla ambigua Hansen, 1926, p. 6, pi. 1 (figs. 2 a-e). 



Previous records. — None. 



Material. — 1 broken 9, CL 5.6; Lagon de Mayotte, Comoro 

 Islands; MYT 192 bis; A. Crosnier; August 1959; USNM. 



