276 Bibliographical Notice. 



ending at submediau fold and with dentate black marks 

 beyond it in the interspaces between veins 6 and 2 ; a black 

 line before termen defined on inner side by grey, slightly 

 waved at the veins ; a white line at base of cilia. Under- 

 side grey irrorated with brown ; both wings with indistinct 

 double curved and slightly waved dark postmedial line, and 

 series of blackish striae before terraen. 



Hab. Sierra Leone, Kennama Distr. {Mrs. M. Addison), 

 1 S type, cotypes ? in Mns. Oxon. Exp. 40 mm. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



An Account of the Crustacea Stomatopodaof the Indo-Pacific Eegion, 

 based on the Collection in the Indian Museum. By Stanley Kemp. 

 Memoirs of the Indian Museum, Vol. IV. No. 1 : with which are 

 issued Illustrations of the Zoology of the R..I.M.S.S. ' Investigator' 

 ... Crustacea Sbomatopoda, Pis. I.-X. Calcutta, 1913. Price 

 15 rupees. 



This Monograph of the ludo-Pacific Stomatopoda is based on a 

 study of what is doubtless the richest collection of these Crustacea 

 that has ever been brought together. The examination of tlie 

 material seems to have been very thorough, the abundant literature 

 of the subject has been carefully explored, and the results are 

 presented in a way that lacks nothing of clearness or methodical 

 arrangement. More than two- thirds of the total number of knoAvn 

 species and varieties are found witliin the limits of the Indo-Pacitic 

 region, and of the great majority of these the author has examined 

 specimens and, in many cases, types. He records the material 

 assistance derived from a collection sent to him on loan by per- 

 mission of the Trustees of the British Museum. It may be added 

 that the National Collection has benefited, not only by his revision 

 of these specimens, but also by a fine series of co-types of his new 

 species received in return from the Indian Museum. 



Among tho many points of more general interest that are dealt 

 with in tho course of the Memoir, attention may be called to the 

 discussion (pp. 150 et seqq.) of the perplexing variations of (Jono- 

 dactyhis chirajra and its allies. It is pointed out that the range 

 of variation is much greater among immature than among adult 

 specimens, and a comparison is made with the analogous case 

 described by Oadow in the turtle, yhahis^orheli/s caretla. 



The names of Wood-Mason, Alcock, and Annandale remind 

 the student of Crustacea that the Indian Musoiim, Calcutta, has 

 long been one of the leading centres of carcinological research. 

 Mr. Kemp had already won his spurs in this field of work before he 

 went to India, and the fine Monograph which he has now produced 

 is worthy of the high traditions of the institution with which ho is 

 connected. W. T. C. 



