122 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Vou. IV, 
The only male specimen examined is very small (48 mm.) and does not possess 
any special structural modifications characteristic of its sex. vi 
The colouration of spirit specimens is very characteristic. ‘The whole of the ros- 
trum except the apical spine and a narrow proximal band is black. There are 
three broad transverse bands of the same colour on the carapace, the posterior of which 
encloses a pale oval spot on either side. ‘The last three thoracic and all the abdominal 
somites have each a broad, median, transverse, black band, leaving pale anterior 
and posterior borders. On the sixth somite the posterior pale border is sometimes 
obsolete. The telson has a pair of large rounded patches of the same black pig- 
ment, involving both the intermediate and lateral dorsal spines and frequently coal- 
escing anteriorly. In some specimens there is a single large patch which is cut into 
four distal lobes. ‘The inner uropod is entirely black, as are also the spines of the 
bifurcate process except at the extreme apex. The peduncular segment is dark proxi- 
mally ; the first segment of the exopod has a round black distal spot, while the 
ultimate segment is obliquely divided into dark anterior and pale posterior portions. 
The collection in the Indian Museum comprises ten specimens :— 
ae Port Blair, Andaman Is. G. H. Booley. I? ,4I mm. 
= Coconada, Madras Presidency. G. W. Wicks. 13,5 2,48—74 mm. 
S106 Coconada, Madras Presidency. ‘ Investigator.’ 19,86 mm. 
oe Bombay. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 22,05 and 85 mm. 
Lysiosquilla acanthocarpus has been recorded from Port Essington, N. Australia 
(Miers), from Penang (Miers) and from Trincomali (Muller, swb S. savasinorum). 
Miers! has described a small female Lystosguilla from Goree I., Senegambia, under 
the name L. acanthocarpus var. septemspinosa. ‘This specimen differs from typical 
acanthocarpus in the slightly transverse rostrum, in the less prominent eyes and in the 
possession of seven teeth on the dactylus of the raptorial claw, the penultimate of which 
is not shorter than the antepenultimate. This form should, perhaps, be recognized as 
a separate species. 
7. Lysiosquilla multifasciata, Wood-Mason. 
1895. Lysiosquilla multifasciata, Wood-Mason, Figs. and Desc. of nine Squillidae, p. 1, fale 
figs. 4-7. 
? 1903. Lysiosquilla multifasciata, Nobili, Boll. Mus. Torino, XVIII, no. 447, p. 30. 
? 1904. Lysiosquilla valdiviensis, Jurich. Stomatop. Deutsch. Tiefsee-Exped. p. 372, pl. xxvi, 
figs. 2-2g. 
? 1906. Lysiosquilla multifasciata, Nobili, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (9), IV, p. 337- 
1910. Lysiosquilla multifasciata, Balss, Abh. math.-phys. Klasse k. bayer. Akad. Wiss. Suppl. Bd. 
II, Abh. 2, p. 6. 
This species is very closely allied to the preceding, differing from it only in the 
following particulars :-— 
1. The dactylus of the raptorial claw bears five or six teeth of which the penulti- 
' Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), VIII, 1881, p. 368, pl. xvi, fig. 7. 
