452 ME. J. E. HENDEESON — A CONTEIBUTION 



Genus Solenocera, Lucas. 



278. Solenocera crassicornis (Milne-Edw.). 



Penceus crassicornis, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, t. ii. p. 418 (1837). 



Gulf of Martaban, a single specimen (Oates) ; Madras, a single specimen (J. B. R.). 



The rostral formula is »-, the first tooth situated on the gastric area at some distance 



from the others, the lower margin ciliated. The antennular flagella are longer than the 

 carapace ; the broad outer flagellum longitudinally grooved or concave along its inner 

 surface, and enveloping the slender internal flagellum. The third pair of legs have 

 the carpus elongated, with the proximal half swollen, and the distal half narrow and 

 cylindrical. 



Spence Bate, in his ' Challenger ' Report, refers this species to his genus Philonicus, 

 but in the latter the antennular flagella, though long, are otherwise normal. 



Distribution. Shores of India ( Milne-Edwards) ; Waltair, Madras Presidency (Sit' 

 Walter Elliot, fide Spence Bate). 



Genus Acetes, Milne-Edwards. 



279. Acetes indicus, Milne-Edw. 



Acetes indicus (Milne-Edw.), Bate, ' Challenger ' Maerura, pi. lxxv. fig. 1 (1888). 



Gulf of Martaban, two specimens (Oates). 



The larger specimen is 26 mm. long. In this aberrant genus the last two pairs of 

 thoracic appendages are absent. 



Distribution. Mouth of the Ganges (Milne -Edwards) ; India (Sir W. Elliot, fide Spence 

 Bate); Singapore (Dana, Walker). 



Order STOMATOPODA*. 



Genus Lysiosquilla, Dana. 



280. Lysiosquilla maculata (Fabr.). 



L. maculata (Fabr.), Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 5, pi. i. figs. 1, 2 (1880). 



Madras (Brit. Mm., J. B. H.); Tuticorin (Thurston). 



Distribution. Red Sea, Rodriguez, Indian Seas, Malay Archipelago, Japan, and the 

 Pacific (Samoa, Eijis, Sandwich Is., &c). 



Genus Sqttllla, Eabricius. 



281. Squilla nepa, Latr. 



S. nepa (Latr.), Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 25, pi. ii. fig. 13 (1880). 



Madras (Brit. Mus.) ; Ceylon (Sal//) ; Tuticorin (Thurston). Very common at Madras 

 (J. B. H.). 



* Mr. Poeock has kindly furnished me with a list of the Indian Stomatopoda in the collection of the British 

 Museum, and I have incorporated their localities with my own notes. 



