518 REPORT Oy THE ORDER STOMATOPODA—BIGELOW. vol.xvii. 



The uropods (fig. 9) are very much as in S. panamcnsls. In general 

 the spines are more conspicuous, except the outer one of the i)rok)nga- 

 tion of the basal joint, which is not half so long as the inner one. The 

 small tooth (large in small specimens) is beyond the middle of the 

 spine. The two joints of the exopodite are equal in length and the 

 first one bears on its outer edge seven mo'S'able spines. The endopodite 

 is narrowly spatulate, relatively a little broader than in K lyanamennis. 



There are no secondary sexual differences and no peculiarities of 

 coloring in my specimens. 



This species conforms to Miers's description of 8. armaia in every 

 essential i)oint that he covers. 



Size. — The largest specimen in the collection is 12.3 cm. in length. 

 Most.of the specimens, hoAvever, are smaller, abont G cm long. 



Locality. — This collection of specimens consists of a good number of 

 both sexes from four stations off the coast of Patagonia, viz., station 

 27G9, off the Gulf of St. George (No. 18470, U.S.]Sr.I\r,); station 2787, 

 off Port Otway QSo. 18472, U.S.N.M.) ; station 2783, off the west coast 

 of Patagonia (Eo. 18505, U.S.:Jsr.M.); and Island Harbor (Xo. 18471, 

 U.S.K.M.), the depth being from 51 to 122 fathoms. 



SQUILL A DUBIA (M i 1 n e - E d w :i r <l s ? ) M i e r s . 



Squilla mantis, Des.markst, C'ousid. Crust.,]). 250, 1825. 



Sqnilla dii.hia,f Milxe-EIdwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, ii, p. 522, 1837. — ? Gibbes, 



Proc. Amer. Assoc, vi, p. 200, 1850. — MiEKS, Ann. and Maii'. Nat. Hist., (5) 



V, p. 24, 1880. 

 'i Squilla rubrolineata, Dana, Crust., I'. 8. Expl. Exped., xiii, i, ji. H18, 1852. — 



VON Martens, Arch. f. Natursescli., 37, p. 144, 1872. 



The National Museum possesses three specimens of this sj)ecies, a male 

 collected, by Dr. G. H. Macon, at Savannah, Ga. (No. 2524, T^S.N.M.), 

 a young male collected by C. C. Leslie, Charleston, S. C. (jS'o. 3139, 

 U.S.N.M.), and a female found by Br. W. H. Jones, U. S. Navy, in a 

 salt lake near Guayaquil, Ecuador (No. 14113, U.S.N.M.). 



The specimen from Savannah corresponds exactly to IMiers'S descrip- 

 tion. The lateral spine of the first exposed thoracic segment is straight 

 in front but rounded behind. In the Charleston specimen it is curved 

 forward a little as in A', enqnisa. 



The specimen from Guayaquil is practically identical in form with 

 the one from Savannah, except that there are one or two more denticles 

 on each side of the telson. A character common to these specimens, 

 and not mentioned by Miers, is the shape of the eyes. They are very 

 small. The eye stalk is dilated in the middle and the corneal axisiof 

 the eye, while oblique, is shorter than the peduncular one. 



SQUILLA PARVA, Pigelow. 

 Squilla parva, Bigelow, Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ, 88, 1891. 

 Diagnosis. — Sqnillae with narrowly triangular eyes, the corneal i)art 

 being shorter than the total length; dactylus of the raptorial claw 

 having six teeth; triangular rostrum rounded anteriorly and provided 



