1913. | S. Kemp: Crustacea Stomatopoda of the Indo-Pacific Region. gI 
several specimens in the Indian Museum resemble that figured by Balss, others are 
aormal or short and with convex margins as in De Haan’s figure of S. harpax. The 
other characters mentioned by Balss are also seen in some specimens, but it appears 
quite impossible to correlate them with any particular type of rostrum. 
In most spirit specimens the hinder margins of all the segments of the post-ab- 
domen except the first and last are defined by a line of black pigment. There are, as 
a tule, two black spots on the superior margin of the raptorial merus near its distal 
end, a spot or streak on the inside of the carpus close to the dorsal carina, a spot on 
either side of the propodus near its distal end and a round and often well-defined spot 
at the base of the telson on each side of the median carina. ‘The distal ends of the 
uropods are also suffused with black pigment ; but in the terminal segment of the 
exopod the suffusion is confined to the inner longitudinal half. 
The following specimens of Squilla raphidea are in the Indian Museum :— 
9834-40 | 
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2328 
Hongkong Museum. ) 
Hongkong. 
= d G. Dennys. § 
183,142, 82—179 mm. 
: Singapore. Raffles Museum. 19, 253 mm. 
Port Blair, Andamans. (purchased. ) 19,124 mm, 
“ES Mergui Archipelago. Mus. Collr. 30,19, 1OI—I75 mm. 
= Rangoon. Mus. Collr. Id, 235 mm. 
ui Off Irrawaddy Delta; 20fms., ‘ Investigator.’ Id, 12,53, 100 mm. 
15° 20’ N., 94° 55’ E. 
@)  Akyab, Tenasserim. I. H. Burkill. Id, 193 mm. 
3097 \ 
sie 
zu ‘ Investigato1.’ 
% \M. of R. Hughli eee 
ey: ie : - ss W. M. Daley. 93,82, 92—300 mm. 
o anges Delta, J. Butler. { 
wt A. J. Milner. 
7326 
ei" Off Puri, Orissa Coast. 
Off Gopalpur, Ganjam Coast ; 
25—28 fms. 
~ — Off Madras Coast. 
Ceylon 
va i Bombay. 
‘Golden Crown.’ 
* Golden Crown.’ 
‘ Golden Crown.’ 
Colombo Museum. 
( Bombay Nat, Hist. Soc. } 
) J. Caunter. ) 
Id,22, 243—288 mm. 
Ig, too mm. 
Io’, 152 mm. 
Id, 127 mm. 
83,92, 72—335! mm. 
1 This is, I believe, the largest known Stomatopod. 
