Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 122 



1967 



Number 3589 



NOTES ON THE GENUS MANNINGIA 



WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES 



(CRUSTACEA: STOMATOPODA) 



By Raymond B. Manning 



Curator, Division oj Crustacea 



One of the recent trends in the study of stomatopod crustaceans 

 has been a critical re-evaluation of generic characters (Serene, 1962; 

 Manning, 1963; Holthuis, 1964). In setting this trend, Serene (1962) 

 reviewed the genus Pseudosquilla Dana and showed it to be a con- 

 glomerate of several groups of species that should be recognized as 

 distinct genera. One of the genera erected by Serene was the mono- 

 typic Manningia, which originally contained only Pseudosquilla 

 pilaensis de Man. 



In a recent study of three specimens of Manningia from Australia, 

 I re-examined five of the seven specimens of Manningia reported in 

 the literature. The Australian specimens proved to be a distinct 

 species, M. notialis, which has been described elsewhere (Manning, 

 1966) . The present paper includes comments on specimens from other 

 localities in the Indo-West Pacific area. 



Since its description by de Man in 1888, Pseudosguilla pilaensis has 

 been recorded only six times from widely scattered areas in the Indo- 

 West Pacific. The following specimens are known (those marked 

 with an asterisk were illustrated) : 



