Chilton. — On Nctr Zealand SquillidcO. 61 



Kirk informs ine that the " Mantis shrimps," dredged iu Wel- 

 lington Harbour, and exhibited by Mr. Mclutyre at the meet- 

 ing of the Welhngton Philosophical Society on 2ad July, 

 1890," also belong to this species. 



Mr. Kirk very kindly lent nie a fine spirit specimen (female) 

 and two dried specimens (males) for examination. The female 

 is 4|^in. in length ; the males are smaller. The " small median 

 carinule or tubercle on the 3rd to 5th post-abdominal seg- 

 ments " is but sliglitly represented on the large female speci- 

 men, and is bai'ely distinguishable in the smaller male 

 specimens, and the "lateral longitudinal series of very small 

 tubercles " on the sides of the median carina of the telson are 

 also absent in all specimens; but in all other respects the spe- 

 cimens agree very closely Avitli Miers's description. As the 

 male specimens are dried, I have not been able to examine the 

 structure of the terminal joint of the 1st abdominal appendage 

 in this species. 



Protosquilla trispinosa, White. 



Go7iodacti/liis tris2)inosiis. 



Miers, I.e., p. 121, pi. iii., fig. 10 (1880). 

 Protosquilla trispinosa. 



Brooks, Z.c, p. 71 (1886). 

 Further synonymy is given by both Miers and Brooks. 

 Hah. West Austi-alia, Fiji, Ceylon, &c. Eecorded from 

 New Zealand by Heller, hut Neic Zealand habitat doubtful. 



Lysiosquilla spinosa, Wood-Mason. 

 Coronis sjnnosa. 



Wood-Mason, Proe. Asiatic 8oc. Bengal, p. 232 (1875). 

 Squilla indcfensa. 



Kirk, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, ii., p. 466- 



(1878). 

 Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xi., p. 391 and p. 401 (1879). 

 Squilla Icevis. 



Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xi., p. 340 (1879) {not Hess). 

 Squilla tridentata. 



G. M. Thomson, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xiv., p. 230 (1882). 

 Lysiosquilla spinosa. 



Miers, "On the SquiUida," Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., ser. 5, v., p. 12, pi. i., figs. 10-12, and 

 p. 125 (1880). 

 Of this species I have been able to examine Professor Hut- 

 ton's type-specimen of Squilla Icsvis, and another specimen 

 labelled "Squ ilia indcfensa , Kirk, ' ' in the Dunedin Museum ; Mr. 



* Monthly Review, ii., p. 427. 



