402 ON THE STOMATOPODA AND MACRURA BROUGHT BY 



2'. Keels of sixth abdom. segment and telson compressed. Keels of sixth abdom. 

 segment produced without constriction into long spines. Middle keel of telson ending 

 iti a sjDine. 



Variety D. {smithi). 



V. With a swollen ridge oa the inside of the keel of the intei'mediate telson- 

 spine. Distribution Atlantic. 



Variety (?) E. {G. oerstedi Hansen). 



The specimens in the present collection include : — 



i. Var. A. (type). 1 J' and 1 $ from the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia ; 2 J 

 and 3 $ from Lifu, Loyalty Islands; 1 ? from Talili Bay, New Britain; 1 $ from 

 Ealun, New Britain. 



ii. Var. B. (anancyrns). 1 j/ from Talili Bay ; 2 $ from Lifu ; 1 j/ loc. ? 



iii. Var. D. (smithi). 2 j" and 2 $ from Lifu. 



Genus. Odontodactylus Bigelow, 1895. 

 4. Odontodactylus scyllarus (Linn.), 1758. 



For references see P. Z. S. 1898, p. 36. 

 1 % from New Britain. 



Genus. Pseudosquilla Dana, 1852. 

 5. Pseudosquilla ciliata (Fabr.), 1793. 



Squilla ciliata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ill., 1, p. 512 (1793). 



Pseudosquilla ciliata, Miers, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) V. p. 108 (1880); Brooks, 

 'Challenger' Stomatopoda, p. 53, PI. XV. Fig. 10 (1886); Borradaile, P. Z. S. 1898^ 

 p. 36. 



The present specimens agree with that of Brooks from Honolulu and that brought 

 by Mr Gardiner from Funafuti (P. Z. S. loc. cit.) in the following points in which 

 they differ from Brooks's West Indian specimens. 



1. The fourth abdominal segment has no spine at the hinder angle. 



2. The inner spine of the basal prolongation of the uropod is longer than the 

 outer. 



Should these differences prove to be characteristic of the forms from the two 

 regions the name of var. occidentalis would be a suitable one to apply to that from 

 the West Indies. 



1 % from Uvea, Loyalty Islands. 1 ^ from Blanche Bay, New Britain. 



