38 ox CRUSTACEANS FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC. [Jan. 18, 



just projecting. Auy small fish passing over is seized, and the 

 animal retreats with it into its tunnel." 



10. Squilla MULTiTUBEECUiATA, sp. n. (Plate YI. figs. 7, 7 a-c.) 



Definition. — " A Squilla \sath elongated flattened eyes ; rostrum 

 subrectangular, without carinae, and with acute antero-lateral 

 angles ; dactyle of the raptorial claw with four teeth (including 

 the terminal tooth) on the inner margin, and three short teeth on 

 the outer margin ; carapace small, narrowed in front, with rounded 

 angles ; lateral processes on the fifth thoracic segment acute, on 

 the sixth to eighth subtruncate ; no carinas on the thoracic or first 

 five abdominal segments ; sixth abdominal segment longitudinally 

 corrugated ; telson covered \\it\i small blunt spines ; submediau 

 marginal spines of telson with movable tips ; several (four or 

 more) submedian spinules, several (six or more) intermediate 

 spinules.'* 



Colour (in alcohol, specimens seem somewhat bleached) pale 

 yellow or greenish yellow. 



Length (only 3 specimens), 12-13 mm. 



This species would appear to be allied to Squilla quadridens 

 Bigelow [Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ. 106, p. 100 (1893)], and in 

 a less degree to S. polita Bigelow [J. Hop. Univ. Circ. 88 (1891)]. 



1 S and 2 $ from Sandal Bay, Lif u, Loyalty Islands. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate V. 



Fig. 1. Protosgtiilla trispinosa, p. 34, 5 > X 2. 

 la. „ ,, telson, x4. 



2. Gonodajctylus chiragra, var. smithii, p. 34, $ , X H. 



2 a. „ „ „ „ telson from the side, X4. 



26. „ ,, „ ,, telson from above, x4. 



3. G. oerstedi, p. 35, $, telson from above, x4. 



4. G. chiragra, p. 34, telson from the side, x4. 



5. G. espinosus, p. 35, c? , x 2. 



5 a. „ cJ , telson from above, X 4. 



5 6. „ (3", endopodite of 1st abdom. app. considerably magnified, 



6. Odontodactylus scyllarus, p. 36, cJ> endopodite of 1st abdom. app. 



magnified. 

 6a. Protosguilla cerehralis, p. 33, J, endopodite of 1st abdom. app. con- 

 siderably magnified. 



Plate VL 



Fig. 7. Squilla multitvherculata, p. 38, c? , X 6. 



7 a. ,, „ telson from above, X 12. 



7 6. „ „ telson from below, Xl2. 



7 c. „ „ endopodite of 1st abdom. app. considerably 



magnified. 



8. Gonodactylus chiragra, p. 34, uat. size. 



9. Pseudosquilla oxyrhytwha, p. 37, ^ , nat. size. 



9 a. „ ,, endopodite of 1st abdom. app. magnified. 



9 6. „ „ 1st maxilliped, X 2^. 



9 c. „ „ 3rd maxilliped, X2'^. 



9d. „ „ 5tli maxilliped, x2^. 



