452 ^n?. J. E. HEXDEESOX — A COXTEIBUTION 



Genus Solexocera, Lucas. 



278. SoLENOCEEA CRASSicoEMs (Milne-Edw.). 



Penanis crassicornis, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, t. ii. p. 418 (1837). 



Gulf of Martaban, a single specimen {Gates) ; Madras, a single specimen {J. B. JS.). 



The rostral formula is j^ , the first tooth situated on the gastric area at some distance 



from the others, the louver margin ciliated. The antennular flagella are longer than the 

 carapace ; the broad outer flagellum longitudinally grooved or concave along its inner 

 surface, and enveloping the slender internal flagellum. The third pair of legs have 

 the carpus elongated, with the proximal half swollen, and the distal half narrow and 

 cylindrical. 



Spence Bate, in his ' Challenger ' Report, refers this species to his genus Fhilonicus, 

 but in the latter the antennular flagella, thovxgh long, ai"e otherwise normal. 



Bistrilmtion. Shores of India {2Iilne-Mh:ards) ; Waltair, Madras Presidency {Sir 

 Walter Elliot, fide Spence Bate). 



Genus Acetes, MUne-Edwards. 



279. Acetes ixbictjs, Milne-Edw. 



Acetes indiais (Milne-Edw.), Bate, ' Challenger ' Macrura, pi. Ixxv. fig. 1 (1888). 



Gulf of Martaban, two specimens ( Oates). 



The larger specimen is 26 mm. long. In this abeiTant genus the last two pairs of 

 thoracic appendages are absent. 



Listribution. Mouth of the Granges {Milne -Edicards); India {Sir W. Elliot, fide Spence 

 Bate); Singapore (i)«««, Walker). 



Order STOMATOPODA*. 



Genus LTSiosQriLLA, Dana. 



280. Lysiosqullla maculata (Fabr.). 



L. maculata (Fabr.), Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 5, pi. i. figs. 1, 2 (1880). 



Madras {Brit. Mus., J. R. S.) ; Tuticorin {Timrston). 



Distribution. Red Sea, Eodi-iguez, Indian Seas, Malay Archipelago, Japan, and tlie 

 Pacific (Samoa, Eijis, Sandwich Is., &c.). 



Genus Squilla, Eabricius. 



281. Sqtjella nepa, Latr. 



S. nepa (Latr.), Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 25, pi. ii. fig. 13 (1880). 

 Madras (.BnY. Jf««.) ; Ceylon (^a^y) ; Tuticorin (r/mr*^o«). VerA- common at Madras 

 {J. R. H.). 



* Mr. I'ocock has kindly furnished me with a list of the Indian Stomatopoda Ln the collection of the British 

 Jluseum, and I have incorporated their localities with my own notes. 



