452 ME. J. E. IIENDEESON — A CONTEIBUTION 



Genus Solenoceka, Lucas. 



278. SoLENOCERA CRASSicoRNis (Milne-Edw.). 



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



Gulf of Martaban, a single specimen {Oates) ; Madras, a single specimen {J. R. H.). 



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



from the others, the lower 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 Fhilonlcus, 

 but in the latter the antennular flagella, though long, are otherwise normal. 



Bistrihution . Shores of India {Milne-Edwards); Waltair, Madras Presidency [Sir 

 Walter Elliot, fide Spence Bate). 



Genus Acetes, Milne-Edwards. 

 279. Acetes indicus, Milne-Edw. 



Acetes indicus (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 aberrant genus the last two pairs of 

 thoracic appendages are absent. 



Distribution. Mouth of the Ganges (Milne-Edwards) ; India {Sir W. Elliot, fide Spence 

 Bate); Singapore (Z'flw^, Walker). 



Order STOMATOPODA*. 



Genus Ltsiosqtjilla, Dana. 



280. Lysiosquilla 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. H.); Tuticorin {Thurston). 



Distribution. Red Sea, Rodrigiiez, Indian Seas, Malay Archipelago, Japan, and the 

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



Genus Squilla, Fabricius. 



281. Sqtjilla nepa, Latr. 



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

 Madras {Brit. Mus.) ; Ceylon {Haly) ; Twiicov'iw {Thurston) . Very common at Madras 

 {J. R. H.). 



* Mr. Pocoek has kindly furnished me with a list of the Indian Stomatopoda in the collection of the British 

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



