Edmondson—Stomatopoda in the Bishop Museum 301 
For a very complete discussion of this widely distributed 
species and its varieties the above reference may be consulted. 
Attention is also called to Kemp’s treatment of this species.1* 
Lanchester recognizes numerous varieties including those 
considered as distinct by previous investigators and points out the 
presence of intermediate forms that obliterate the structural distinc- 
tions heretofore regarded as specific. 
Two female specimens are in the collection of the Bishop 
Museum, both of which may be assigned to the above variety. 
The specimen from Guam corresponds in all details of the 
telson with Lanchester’s var. acutus. The three carinae of the 
telson are sharply defined, the median one descending abruptly 
at its distal extremity. No appearance of lateral marginal teeth 
is evident. The specimen from the Marquesas may be considered 
an intermediate form between var. twmidus Lanchester and var. 
acutus, although it more closely approaches the latter. As to 
the carinae of the telson it closely resembles the latter variety, 
but traces of lateral marginal teeth are to be observed in the 
Marquesan specimen. 
The color of the Bishop Museum specimen from Guam, 
preserved in alcohol, is yellowish in color with faint evidence 
of greenish mottlings. The lateral borders of the carapace, the 
posterior margins of the exposed thoracic and the abdominal 
segments as well as the summits of the carinae are green. The 
posterior edge of the sixth abdominal segment on the ventral 
surface is distinctly marked by the same color. The dactylus of 
the raptorial limb is greenish-white. A pink band marks the 
outer surface of the manus near its distal extremity. The alco- 
holic specimen from the Marquesas is greenish-brown above, with 
the sixth abdominal segment and the telson considerably lighter 
in color. The raptorial limbs are almost white. Lanchester’s 
specimen is recorded as “variegated green and white.” 
The largest of the Bishop Museum specimens, the one from 
Guam, measures 80 mm, from the tip of the medial rostral spine 
“Kemp, S., The Crustacea Stomatopoda of the Indo-Pacific Region: 
Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 4, p. 150, 1913. 
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