new Species of Squilla from West Africa. 318 
edge ending distally in a very slight tuberele. Daetylus 
with six teeth, including the terminal one. 
Fifth thoracie limb without epipodite. 
Free thoracic somites with well-marked submedian and 
intermediate earinze not ending in spines. Fifth somite with 
Jateral teeth undivided, acute, and strongly curved, so that 
the points are turned almost directly forwards. Lateral 
plates of sixth and seventh somites less acute than in 
S. empusa. 
Squilla africana, sp.n. a, Yaptorial limb from the side, showing the 
hook-like tooth on the proximal segment and other characters ; 
b, carpus, seen obliquely from in front, showing the ridge on the 
anterior face. 
Abdominal somites with well-marked carinz. Lateral 
carin ending in spines on all the somites, the intermediate, 
as a rule, on all except the first and second, and the submedian 
only on the sixth. 
Telson resembling that of S. empusa, but with marginal 
teeth usually longer and more slender; six to eight denticles 
