AN ACCOUNT 
OF 
THE STOMATOPODA OF THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION. 
By STANLEY Kemp, B.A.., 
Assistant Superintendent, Indian Museum. 
Plates I--X. 
CONTENTS. 
Page 
Introduction ae Ne Bic Bs az as ac Be ei 
Systematic account se ao D6 os Be a bese 21S 
Squilla a0 DE 5c as Sc Si 339 LO 
Pseudosquilla ag ie zo SC Se Sis a 94 
Lysiosquilla sys as ay 3¢ O€ : .. 109 
Coronida oe ae Ac on 38 0 Se 3c) 
Odontodactylus at ac oe ae So Se an k33 
Gonodactylus te oc oh 56 ee A Se ats 
Addendum re 56 5x a3 a ie se 195 
List of species known from the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific Coast of America .. 200 
Bibliography 26 ve aC $0 5 sis ae == 200 
Index 56 56 oe ic 56 ae Se = 205 
INTRODUCTION. 
The history of the collection of Stomatopoda in the Indian Museum dates from 
some twenty years ago when the late Mr. J. Wood-Mason, at the expenditure of 
much time and energy, devoted himself to the acquisition of a representative series 
of Indo-pacific species To the small nucleus collection then existing he was able to 
add numbers of known and unknown forms, not only from the coasts of India, but 
from New Zealand, Australia, Hongkong, Singapore and Mauritius. 
Mr. Wood-Mason died in 1893, just after completing the arrangement and 
classification of a large part of the collection. It was hoped that among his papers 
material for a full account of the species would be found, but this unfortunately did 
not prove to be the case. A number of figures accompanied by a few rough labora- 
tory notes alone were available and although his successor, Col. Alcock, was able to 
edit from these an account of nine species, no connected report on the whole collec- 
tion has hitherto appeared. Since 1895, when Wood-Mason’s descriptions were 
