20 Mr. E. J. Miers on the Squillida3. 



ment as faintly sulcated. His specimens were from Rio 

 Janeiro. 



Squilla supplex. 



Squilla supplex, Wood -Mason, Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, p. 232 



(1875). 



I am only acquainted with tins species from Mr. Wood- 

 Mason's short diagnosis, according to which each of the post- 

 abdominal segments is armed with nine carina, arranged 

 three in the middle and three on each side ; the terminal seg- 

 ment has three short oblique ridges on each side, between 

 which and the strong median ridge on each side is a row of 

 confluent tubercles in the same straight line with the two 

 median marginal teeth ; dactyli of the raptorial limbs with five 

 teeth. 



Hah. Bombay. 



Squilla multicarinata. 



Squilla multicarinata, White, List Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 84 (1847) ; 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 144, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1848). 



Carapace with the cervical suture scarcely defined, except 

 in its posterior portion, and with the whole of its upper surface 

 covered with very numerous closely-placed longitudinal carina?, 

 its antero-lateral angles terminating in a short spine. Ros- 

 trum oblong, with a median carina ; the exposed thoracic and 

 postabdominal segments are covered, like the carapace, with 

 numerous longitudinal carinas, which terminate posteriorly in 

 small spines, the normal carina? of each segment being some- 

 what more prominent than the rest. The fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth thoracic segments are laterally bilobate ; the terminal 

 postabdominal segment is carinated as the preceding ; the 

 median carina terminates in a spinule; the interspaces between 

 the terminal marginal spines contain six tubercles ; and be- 

 tween these and the first lateral spines there are eight or 

 nine. The uropoda are carinated above and below, and the 

 distal prolongation of the basal portion terminates in two 

 strong spines. Length about 2| inches. 



Hah. Seas of Eastern Asia. Specimens from the Philip- 

 pine Islands {Cuming) and Nangasaki Bay (H.M.S. ' Sama- 

 rang ') are in the Museum collection. The only male, one 

 from the latter locality, is small and in a badly-preserved 

 condition. 



The dactyli of the raptorial limbs are normally five-spined ; 

 but the left-hand dactylus of one of the Philippine specimens is 

 seven-spined. 



