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3. Manningia amabilis Holthuis, 1967 
Manningia amabilis Holthuis, 1967b, p. 16, figs. 4-5. 
Manningia species Manning, 1967a, p. 5, fig. 1 [other references]. 
MATERIAL.—1 o, 37 mm; western end of Astola Island, ca. 177 miles west of 
Karachi; rocks, sand, scanty, scattered coral; 0-8 ft; L. P. Woods, et al.; Sta. 
LW-1; IIOE; 27 November 1963; USNM. 
Dracnosis.—Rostral plate subpentagonal, rounded anterolater- 
ally, lacking apical spine; ocular scales fused basally, apices separate; 
antennal protopod with 1 ventral papilla; dactylus of claw with 4 
teeth; merus of claw lacking inferodistal spine on outer surface; 
sixth abdominal somite with 3 pairs of dorsal carinae, each armed 
posteriorly, low accessory carina present between submedians and 
intermediates; telson with median carina and 5 pairs of dorsal 
carinae, accessory medians subdivided into 2 tubercles, remainder 
entire; submedian and intermediate carinae each with blunt posterior 
lobe; basal prolongation of uropod with teeth on inner margin, 
lacking rounded lobe between distal spines. 
Cotor.—Body completely covered with light brown chromato- 
phores arranged in no particular pattern. 
Discussion.—This species of Manningia closely resembles M. 
notialis Manning from Australia but differs from it as follows: 
(1) the ocular scales are fused; (2) the rostral plate is more rounded 
anterolaterally; (3) there is a low ridge on the sixth abdominal 
somite lateral to each submedian carina; and (4) the accessory 
median carinae of the telson are divided into two blunt lobes, not 
three spined ones. 
A more complete account of this species, including illustrations, 
has been published by L. B. Holthuis (1967b) in a paper on the 
stomatopods of the Red Sea that was issued after this paper was 
submitted for publication. 
DistriBpuTion.—Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Astola Island, West 
Pakistan; it has not been recorded previously from the latter locality. 
Protosquilla Brooks, 1886 
Draanosis.—Cornea subglobular or bilobed; rostral plate sharply 
trispinous; anterolateral margins of carapace not extending beyond 
base of rostral plate; mandibular palp present; sixth abdominal 
somite fused with telson; basal segment of uropodal exopod not 
extending beyond articulation of distal segment, marginal spines 
straight. 
Typn-sPECIES.—Gonodactylus folini A. Milne-Edwards, 1868. 
Remarks.—Protosquilla includes the species assigned by Kemp 
(1913) to Gonodactylus Group III. Three species of Protosquilla 
