LIVING IN THE VENTTs's FLOWER-BASKET. 509 



Two specimens are in the Collection — one is a female with ova, 

 the other I believe to be a male. 



In De Haan's description of Spongicola venusta no mention is 

 made of the two spines on the dorsal surface of the cephalothorax, 

 behind the rostrum (which in his specimens is 9-toothed), nor of 

 the serrate teeth on the upper margin of the hand and on the 

 appendages of the sixth postabdominal segment, although there 

 are indications of these in his figure of the species in the case of 

 the last-mentioned organs. The hand in the figure is represented 

 as longer in proportion to its depth. The description, however, 

 coincides in all essential particulars with the specimens from Zebu ; 

 and the habitat " in Alci/onceUis" being the same, I have little 

 doubt that the species are identical. 



^GA SPOKGIOPHILA, Semper, ArcMv f. Natxirg. sxxi. p. 84 

 (1867); Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 4) vol. ii. p. 26 (1868). 

 PI. XXIV. figs. 3-5. 



The body is elongate-oval, moderately convex and punctulated ; 

 the punctures nowhere very crowded, but most numerous upon 

 the head and first segment of the body. The head is transverse, 

 about twice as broad at base as it is long, with a small median 

 triangular frontal lobe, that is produced between the basal joints 

 of the upper antennse. The first segment of the body is rather 

 the longest ; the lateral margins of all the segments form nearly a 

 right angle with the posterior margins, the postero-lateral angles 

 of the segments being themselves somewhat rounded. Six seg- 

 ments of the postabdomen are exposed ; the first five are very 

 short, acute, and slightly produced backward at the lateral angles ; 

 the terminal segment is longer than the five preceding taken 

 together, but not quite as long as broad at the base, flat above, 

 with a shallow indentation parallel to its basal margin, semioval, 

 with ciliated margins. The eyes are black, broad at base, where 

 they cover a part of the inflexed lateral margins of the head ; seen 

 from above, they are pyriform in shape, narrowing to the distal 

 extremity, which recedes slightly from the anterior margin of the 

 head. The upper antennse are short, when retracted not reaching 

 to the posterior margin of the first segment of thebody : three joints 

 of the peduncle are visible; the first much enlarged, with a shallow 

 indentation on its upper surface, perhaps indicating the coalescence 

 of two joints ; the third joint is about twice as long as and narrower 

 than the second. The inferior antennae are very long,when retracted 

 reaching beyond the posterior margin of the sixth segment of the 



