1880. 



General Catalogue of South African Crustacea. 407 



specimens which I have brought home undoubtedly belong to 

 this species which is distributed in all warm seas ; with the 

 illustrations known to me, however, some details do not quite 

 agree. The little plate in the middle of the frontal margin 

 and at the base of the eyes is broad, rounded at the corners 

 and in the middle ending in a spine. The 6 rather long 

 rounded prominences on the penultimate segment of the abdo- 

 men do not end behind in a long sharp spine, the 3 much 

 larger prominences on the last segment are not armed with 

 marginal teeth and the gap on the hind margin is wider and 

 m the middle incised. This species when alive is beautifully 

 marbled in green and yellowish tints and violet on the prong 

 of the raptorial feet. It is rather rare at Natal Point. Length 

 2|^ inches." 

 G. chiragra, Miers, knn. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, vol. v., p. 18. 



1886. G. c, Brooks, Challenger Stomatopoda, Eeports, vol. xvi., 

 p. 56, pi. 15, fig. 4. 



1898. G. c, Borradaile, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 33. 



1903. G. c, Lanchester, Fauna Maid, and Laccadive Arch., vol. i., 



pt. 4, p. 444. 



Mr. Lanchester supplies many bibHographical references 



and gives fifteen varietal names, among which his var. 



tumiclus seems best to satisfy the description above translated 



from Krauss. 



LAEVAL SQUILLID^. 



Gen. ALIMA, Leach. 

 1818. Alima, Leach, Journ. Phys., vol. Ixxxvi., p. 305. 

 1825. A., Desmarest, Consid. g^n. Crust., p. 253. 

 1871. A., Claus, Abhandl. k. Gesellsch. Wiss. Gottingen, vol. xvi., 



p. 111. 

 1886. A., Brooks, Challenger Stomatopoda, Eeports, vol. xvi., 



pp. 81, &c. 

 1895. A., Hansen, Stomatopoden Plankton-Exp., pp. 64, &c. 

 1910. A., Giesbrecht, F. und FI. Golfes von Neapel, vol. xxxiii., 

 pp. 122, 147. 

 Giesbrecht gives as the leading feature of the Squilla 

 {Alima) group of larvae that the telson has four or more 

 spines between the second lateral spine and the spine of the 

 hinder angle. 



