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Moramba, northwestern coast of Madagascar; dredge; 30 m; muddy 

 sand; A. Crosnier; 1 March 1958; USNM. 



Diagnosis. — Eye small, cornea set obliquely on stalk; rostral plate 

 without median carina; anterior bifurcation of median carina of 

 carapace obscure, interrupted in some specimens; dactyl us of raptorial 

 claw with 5 teeth; dorsal ridge of carpus of claw undivided; inferodistal 



Figure 7. — Squilla gonypetes Kemp, male, TL 53.1, Banc de Pracel: a, anterior portion of 

 body; b, outline of lateral processes of fifth, sixth and seventh thoracic somites. 



angle of merus of claw unarmed; mandibular palp and 4 epipods pres- 

 ent; lateral processes of fifth to seventh thoracic somites bilobed, 

 anterior lobe of process of seventh somite well developed; abdominal 

 carinae spined as follows: submedian, 5-6; intermediate, 4-6; lateral, 

 3-6; marginal, 1-5; telson with 4, 7, 1 denticles, outer submedian and 

 outer intermediate larger than remainder; ventral surface of telson 

 with short postanal keel. 



Color. — Thoracic and abdominal somites with dark, irregular 

 posterior line; second abdominal somite with dark transverse patch, 

 fifth somite with pan of dark, triangular submedian patches; sixth 

 abdominal somite black posterolaterally; telson with rectangular 

 anterior and triangular posterior dark patches along median carina; 



