no. 3641 STOMATOPOD CRUSTACEA — MANNING 55 



July 1959; USNM. 1 9, 30.4; same; A. Crosnier; January 1962; 

 USNM. 1 9, 31.4; same; February 1962; MNHNP. 



Remarks. — These specimens agree well with Kemp's (1913) 

 account of the species. All specimens have small posterolateral spines 

 on the carinae or bosses of the sixth abdominal somite. The dark 

 patches on the sixth thoracic somites may be well marked on the 

 males but not on the females. 



Distribution. — Indo-West Pacific, from scattered localities be- 

 tween East Africa, the Red Sea, and Australia. Shallow water. 



Protosquilla spinosissima (Pfeffer, 1888) 



Gonodactylus spinosissimus. — Kemp, 1913, p. 191, pi. 10 (figs. 124-125). — 

 Holthuis, 1941, p. 292, fig. 9c [with synonymy].— Serene, 1953, p. 507; 1954, 

 pp. 6, 52 [listed].— Ingle, 1963, p. 31, fig. 30. 



Illustration.— Kemp, 1913, pi. 10 (figs. 124-125). 



Previous record. — None. 



Material. — 1 9, 12.8; Nosy Be; intertidal zone; December 1958; 

 MacNae; USNM. 



Description. — Cornea flattened, faintly bilobed, set obliquely on 

 stalk; ocular scales acute laterally; rostral plate trispinous, median 

 spine longer than anterolaterals, extending to cornea, anterolateral 

 spines extending just past base of eyestalk; anterior margin of carapace 

 lateral to rostral plate slightly concave, angled anterolaterally; 

 dactylus of claw with basal notch on outer margin; mandibular palp 

 2-segmented; first 4 abdominal somites smooth, margin of fourth 

 angled posterolaterally; fifth somite smooth dorsally, with 3-4 

 longitudinal lateral carinae, posterolateral margin spined; sixth 

 somite with anterior row of spinules, dorsal surface with 6 irregular 

 groups of erect spines, each situated on low dorsal bosses indistinctly 

 separated by shallow furrows; telson longer than broad, completely 

 fused with sixth somite, ornamented dorsally with 3 bosses, median 

 round, situated anteriorly, submedians oval, situated at and posterior 

 to apex of median cleft; surface of telson covered with erect, slender 

 spines, arising primarily from dorsal bosses and lateral margins; 

 lateral spines arranged in 3 rows, outermost directed laterally, with 

 9-11 spines; posterior margin of telson with deep median cleft, lined 

 with spines, and shallower submedian clefts; basal segment of uropod 

 with 1-2 proximal dorsal spines; outer spines of basal prolongation 

 of uropod longer than inner. 



Color. — Body mottled brown; carapace and merus of claw with 

 lighter transverse band; telson and uropods lighter than body, lacking 

 definite pattern in preservative. 



Discussion.— This small specimen agrees in all details with the 

 excellent account of the species given by Kemp (1913). 



