454 ME. J. R. HENDERSON— A CONTRIBUTION 



Genus Pseudosquilla, Dana. 



285. Pseudosquilla ciliata (Fabr.). 



P. ciliata (Fabr.), Miers, Aim. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 30, pi. iii. figs. 7, 8 (D880). 



India [Brit. IIus.) ; Madras (J. M. H.). 



Bistribution. Prom the Red Sea to Australia and the Pacitic (Pijis, Sandwich Is., &c.). 

 It has also been recorded from the West Indies by Von Martens and Brooks. 



Genus Gonodactylus, Latreille. 



286. GONODACTTLUS CHIRAGRA (Pabr.). 



G. chiragra (Fabr.), Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 40 (1880). 

 India; Andamaus ; Galle, Ceylon {Brit. Miis.). 



Bistribution. Prom the Red Sea and East Africa to Australia, and the Pacific. It is 

 also recorded from the Mediterranean, tlie West Indies, and the coast of Plorida. 



287. GONODACTYLUS GLABER, Brooks. 



G. (//abrous, Brooks, 'Challenger' Stomatopoda, p. 62, pi. xiv. fig. a, pi. sv. figs. 7, 9 (1886). 



Ceylon (Brit. IIus.) ; Tuticorin, RaHieswa]'am, and Silavaturai Par, many specimens 

 {Thurston); very common between tide-marks and on the reef at Rameswaram 

 {J. R. H.). 



G. glaher is closely allied to O. yraphurus, Miers, but the diiferences appear constant 

 in a lar^e series ; I have not met with the latter s^jecies, nor does the British Museum 

 possess Indian specimens. 



In G. (jraphurus the first five abdominal segments liave a distinct dorsal impressed 

 line or groove (" suture " of Brooks), which, commencing near the mid-dorsal line of 

 each somite, passes to the lateral surface, and takes a rounded anterior curve so as to 

 resemble a fish-hook ; on the fourth and fifth segments tlie two lateral grooves almost 

 meet in the middle line. Two smaller grooves are also present on the pleura of the 

 same segments, one arising from the convex bend of the hook, the other rising from the 

 anterior margin of tlie pleuron, and taking a curved cou.rse. In G. glaher the dorsal 

 surface of the abdominal segments is perfectly smooth, and merely faint grooves are 

 seen on the pleura. In G. graplmrns there is a short median carina on the sixth 

 abdominal segment, placed between the submedian longitudinal elevations ; whereas in 

 G. glaher this carina is usually absent, or at most but faintly indicated. According to 

 Brooks the projections on the sixth abdominal segment and telson are more sharply 

 defined and less swollen in G. glaher ; but this cliaracter appears to be of doubtful value, 

 for in the type-specimen of G. grapliurus (originally named by White in MS.) the 

 elevations are sharply defined, and even narrower than in my examples of G. glaher. 



My series includes specimens from 15 mm. in length up to a length of Gi mm. 



Bistribution. Samboangan {Brooks) ; Aden ; Massowah ; Eastern Seas ; Sooloo Sea ; 

 Sir C. Hardy's Island, N. Australia {Brit. Mas.). 



