i24 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Vor. IV, 
forms, as Jurich has done both in this case and in the case of Squilla minor, is greatly 
to be deprecated. 
Wood-Mason’s type specimen is the only example of L. multifasciata preserved 
in the Indian Museum :— 
Ss Bombay. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. I?,44mm. TYPE. 
Balss has recorded the species from Formosa. Nobili’s examples, which are per- 
haps wrongly determined, were found at Samarinda in Borneo and at Obock in the 
Red Sea. ‘The locality of Jurich’s L. va/diviensis is unknown. 
8. Lysiosquilla biminiensis, Bigelow. 
1893. Lysiosquilla biminiensis, Bigelow, John Hopkins Univ. Cire., No, 106, p. 102. 
1894. Lysitosquilla biminiensis, Bigelow, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XVII, p. 504, text figs. 4-7. 
subsp. pacificus, Borradaile. 
1899. Lystosquilla biminiensts var. pacificus, Borradaile, in Willey’s Zool. Results, p. 403. 
This species, like the preceding, is a close ally of L. acanthocarpus, but differs from 
it structurally in the following features :— 
1. The dactylus of the raptorial claw bears six teeth, including the apical one, and 
the penultimate is longer than the ante-penultimate. The lobes at the base of 
the external margin have much the same form as in acanthocarpus. 
2. There are only three pairs of denticles, which are comparatively large, between 
the mobile submedian spines of the telson. 
3. The rounded lobe fringed with long setae which is found in L. acanthocarpus 
on the ventral aspect of the basal segment of the outer uropod, projecting over 
the articulation with the ultimate segment, does not*exist (fide Bigelow, fig. 
4) in L. biminiensis and the carina on the lower surface of the peduncular 
segment (which ends in a strong anterior tooth in L. acanthocarpus) also 
appears to be missing. 
The colour of the living animal, according to the full description which Bigelow 
gives, is fawn or pink with black, reddish brown and bright lemon yellow markings. 
The black colouring, which alone persists in alcohol, exists as a narrow border round 
the postero-lateral angles of the carapace. ‘here is also a black posterior transverse 
streak on either side of the last thoracic and fifth abdominal somites and a pair of 
small black eyespots on the telson placed side by side in the median line just in front 
of the dorsal spines. 
The specimen which Borradaile names facificus differs structurally from those des- 
cribed by Bigelow only in the most insignificant features, but the colouring is different 
for on each somite from the sixth thoracic to the fifth abdominal inclusive, there is a 
narrow deep-black posterior border. 
Bigelow’s two specimens (48 mm. in length) were found in a burrow in the sand 
at the Bimini Is., Bahamas, while the single individual which Borradaile records was 
found at New Britain and is called pacificus in order to emphasize the remarkable 
distribution of the species. 
