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FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS 



OF 



NINE SPECIES OF SQUILLID^. 



Lysiosquilla spinosa, (Wood-Mason). 

 Plate I. figs. 1-3. 



Coronis spinosa, Wood-MaSon, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1875, p. 2:52. 



Squilla indefensa, Kirk, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3878, (5) II. p. 466 ; and Tr. N. Z. Inst., 1879, 



Vol. XI. p. 394, woodcut, and p. 401 ; and Filhol, Passage de Venus, Miss, do I'ile Campbell, 



(Crust. N. Z.) p. 4.36, pi. liv. fig. ;5 (bad). 

 Lysiosquilla spinosa, Miers, Ann. ^lag. Nat. Hist., 1880, (5) V. p. 12. 

 Coronis tricarinata, Gray (ined.). White, List Crust. Brit. Mus., 1847, p. 85. 



/fab. — Andaman Sea and New Zealand. 



The Andaman agrees exactly with the New Zealand specimen. 



No. ^. One female from Dunedin, N. Z., presented by Captain F. W. 



Hutton. 

 No. ^. One female from Port Blair, presented by James Wood-Mason. 



LYSIOSQUILLA MTJLTIFASCIATA, n. sp., Wood-Mason. 



Plate I. figs. 4-7. 



Rostrum trapeziform, only a little longer than broad, covering the basal third 

 of the eye-peduncles ; its basal portion with its slightly concave or sinuous sides 

 distinctly convergent to the antero -lateral angles, which arc a little greater than 

 right-angles and obtuse; its spinous apical portion extending to the margin 

 of the corneae. 



A pair of slender conical spines on the superolateral face of the antennulary 

 ring. The nauplius eye is minute and unarmed (no ridge-like tubercle). 



Penultimate joint of the raptorial legs armed with four spines at base : last 

 joint very unequally biangulated on the outer edge, near the base, the second 

 angulation being greatly expanded ; armed on the inner edge of one limb with five, 

 and of the other with six teeth, of which the first is minute (not quite half the 



