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“ > Madras, ra 8, 65—99 mm. 
3452—f ’ 
a Off Madras Coast, 23 fms. ‘ Investigator.’ I?, 101 mm. 
14°4’57” N., 80°20’50” I. 
“ Orissa Coast, 7—8 fms. ‘Investigator.’ Io, 98 mm. 
7296—9 N. Annandale, 
< | Puri, Orissa Coast. I’. H. Gravely and 93,132, 50—90 mm. 
oe J. Caunter. } 
M Sandheads, Ganges Delta W. M. Daly. 1?, 69 mm. 
ae Persian Gulf. I’. H. Townsend. Id, 52 mm. 
The following specimens from the British Museum collection have also been ex- 
amined :— 
Singapore. S. F. Flower. Id, 77 mm. 
Rameswaram I., G. of Manaar. J. R. Henderson. 13, 89 mm. 
(Henderson, 1893, sub S. affinis.) 
Madras. F. Day. I¢,106 mm. 
(Henderson, 1893, sub S. affints.) 
Muscat.! J. B. Miles. Id, 345 mm. 
Aden, 5—8 {us.! Capt. Shotland. If, 4 mm. 
Zanzibar. Col. Playfair. Id,12, 75 and 105 nm. 
(Miers, 1880, sub S. nepa.) 
According to the above records this species extends over an area ranging from 
Hongkong and the Australian Coast to the Persian Gulf, Aden and Zanzibar. 
27. Squilla massavensis, Kossmann. 
1880. Sguilla massavensis, Kossmann, Zool. Ergebn. Roth. Meer., III, p. gg. 
1906. Sgutlla massavensis, Nobili, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (9), IV, p. 340. 
1910. Sguilla massavensis, Balss, Denk d. math.-naturwiss. Klasse d. Kais. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 
LXXXV, p. II, text-figs. a, c, d. 
I refer to this species nine specimens obtained by Mr. F. H. Townsend in the 
Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. The largest is only 108 mm. in total length and 
is consequently much smaller than Kossmann’s type (140 mm.). 
Squilia massavensis is evidently an extremely close ally of S. wood-masoni and 
like that species may be distinguished from S. oratoria and S. interrupta by the dac- 
tylus of the raptorial claw (see Balss, 1910, text-fig. 3), which is strongly sinuous 
externally and provided with short teeth, while other less conspicuous characters are 
the size of the cornea—the corneal index is about the same as in S. wood-masoni— 
the deep-cut cervical groove and the extreme reduction in size of the lobe on the 
outer aspect of the longer of the two spines forming the basal process of the uropod. 
From S. wood-masoni the species may be distinguished by the following char- 
acteis.—— 
1. The dorsal surfaces of the carapace and abdomen do not present a polished 
appearance. 
' The specimen was identified prior to the examination of a series of S. massavensis. Itis not im- 
probable that it should more properly be referred to that species. 
