Indian Deep-sea Dredtjing. 409 



The other thoracic legs are long, stout, and compressed, 

 the third and fourth pairs, whicli are the longest, being twice 

 the length ot" the chelipods. 



In the second to fourth legs the meropoditc has both the 

 anterior and the ])osterior edges closely s[)inatc and the 

 dactylus is long. In the fifth pair the; meropoditc is spinate 

 on the posterior edge only, the anterior edge having only a 

 single terminal spine. The fifth pair also difi:ers in having 

 a strong terminal spine on the posterior edge of the carpo- 

 podite, which joint is also longer than it is in the other legs. 

 In the fifth pair a very efficient subchela is formed by the 

 closing of the short dactylus against a serrated eminence tliat 

 occupies tiie middle two fourths of the propodite. 



From the orifice in the basal joints of the fifth pair of legs 

 the vas deferens protrudes as a curved tube. 



In the male the appendages of the first two abdominal 

 somites are well developed ; the first pair are long and hairy 

 and reach to the base of the chelipeds ; they are broadly 

 tubular in their distal half and are papillated at the tip ; the 

 second pair are stoutish rods about two thirds the length of 

 the first pair, and end each in a broad sucker-like disk. In 

 both of these appendages all the normal component parts are 

 recognizable, although of course modified. 



In the female there are five pairs of abdominal legs, of 

 which the first are uniramous. 

 Colour in life salmon-pink. 



A male and a female were dredged at Station 115, 188-220 

 fathoms ; they both have the same dimensions, namely : — 

 Length of carapace 30 millim., breadth 28 millim., leiigtii of 

 chelipeds 46 millim., length of third leg 94 millim., length 

 of fifth leg 60 millim. 



Order STOMAPODA. 

 Squilla, auctorum. 



97. Squilla tenuispinis, Wood-Mason. 



Squilla temd^pinis, Wood-Masou, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., March 189i, 

 p. 271. 



Station 115, 188-220 fatlioms, and Station 119, 95 fathoms. 



98. Squilla stridulans, sp. n., Wood-Mason. 



The late Professor Wood-Mason has recorded the following 

 diagnosis of this species : — 



" Dorsal integument foveolate-rugose, the sculpture coarser 

 Ann. cf; Mag. N. Hist. Ser, 6. Vol. xiii. 27 



