NINE SPECIES OF SQUILLID^. U 



Colour in life — " delicate salmon-pink darkest in the mid-dorsal line"; 

 a linear purplish brown edging to the posterior margin of the terga, from tlie 

 sixth thoracic to the fifth abdominal, in spirit specimens. 



No. ^. One mutilated female, the type of the species, from Port Blair, 

 presented by James Wood-Mason. 



No. -^. One female, from the Ye River Entrance, presented by the Marine 

 Survey of India. 



No. ^. One male from off the Irrawadi Delta, presented by the Marine 

 Survey of India. 



GoNODACTYLUS PLATYSOMA, n. sp., Wood-Mason. 

 Plate III. figs., 3-9. 



I can find no description nor any reference to tliis species among the rough 

 MS. notes at my disposal. 



In the collection however are two bottles labelled respectively : — 



No. 5 . Gonodactylus brachysoma, W.-M. ? , Type. Mauritius, purchased. 



No. 5-. Gonodactylus brachysoma, W.-M., Society Islands. Presented by 

 the Otago Museum. 



These appear to be the species figured here as Gonodactylus platysoma. 



