Mr. E. J. Miers on the Squillidae. 13 



The carapace is very short ; the two dorsal carinas of the first 

 to fifth postabdominal segments are obsolete. The terminal 

 segment is well developed. If the figure be correct, the 

 dactyli of the raptorial limbs are thickened at base, as in 

 Gonodactylus, and have six spines on their inner margins. 



Leptosquilla Schmeltzii. 



Squilla Schmeltzii, A. M.-Edwards", J. Mus. Godeflroy, i. (pt.iv.) p. 87, 

 pi. ii. tig. 7 (1873). 



Carapace rather narrow, with the antero -lateral angles 

 spiniform and not very prominent. Rostral plate small and 

 obtuse. Postabdominal segments with two prominent carinas 

 on each side, which are produced into spines on the sixth 

 segment; terminal segment broader than long, armed above 

 with a median carina and with six acute marginal teeth. 

 Dactyli of the raptorial limbs with seven spines (including 

 the terminal spine), margin of the penultimate joint finely den- 

 ticulated. Uropoda greatly reduced in size ; thoracic limbs 

 very small. 



Hah. Upolu, Samoa Islands. 



I have seen no specimens of this species. Its colour is a 

 bright grey. 



I have taken the above description from Milne-Edwards. 

 In the figure the penultimate postabdominal segment is six- 

 spined. The terminal segment is represented as having about 

 six spinules between the submedian spines of the posterior 

 margin, and half a dozen more on each side between these 

 and the next spines. 



Chloridella*. 



Chlorida, Eydoux and Souleyet, Voy. de la Bonite, Zool. i. Crust, 

 p. 264 (1841) ; Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp. xiii. Cr. i. p. 615 (1852), 

 footnote. 



This genus is very nearly allied to Squilla, and particularly 

 to the species comprised in Section A in the present revision, 

 but differs in the form of the eye-peduncles, which are of an 

 ovoid form, greatly dilated in their middle portion, and con- 

 stricted at the extremity, the cornea being very small and 

 terminal. The rostral plate and carapace are very small, the 

 former not reaching nearly to the base of the eye-peduncles. 

 The cervical suture is posteriorly distinct. The appendages 

 of the thoracic limbs (in the specimen of C. microphthalmia 

 in the Museum collection and in C. Latreillei) are somewhat 



* The name given to this genus having been preoccupied among the 

 Coleoptera, I have slightly modified its termination. 



