148 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



large, slightly curved and inserted close to the outer and smallest 

 of the spines. 



The inner branch of the pleopoda in the female has a short 

 club-shaped process, situated on the margin in the middle or at a 

 short distance below. 



The legs are slightly hairy, when alive the specimens were of a 

 reddish-sand colour, in spirit the posterior two-thirds of the 

 carapace is scarlet, the abdominal segments are also tinted on 

 the upper surface with the same colour. 



About fifty specimens were obtained under stones and in 

 sponges in the mangrove swamp. 



Length of largest specimen from the tip of the 



rostrum to extremity of telson 14mm. 



Length of external antennse 15mm. 



Length of chelipedes ; 6mm. 



Length of hand and fingers 2^mm. 



Length of fifth leg 7^mm. 



HARPILIUS MIERSI, De Mann. 



Harpilius miersi, De Mann, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool., xxii., 

 p. 274, pi. xvii., figs. 6-10. 



Two females somewhat doubtfully referred to De Mann's 



The specimens seem to differ slightly from the type as figured 

 by the author. 



The rostrum is five or rather seven toothed if the terminal and 

 inferior teeth are included, they occupy the same relative positions 

 to each other as those on the rostrum figured by De Mann. The 

 small processes of the frontal margin between the insertion of 

 the external antennse and the eye-stalks can scarcely be termed 

 spinose, they consist of thin projections of the frontal margin of 

 the carapace. 



The colour of the specimens preserved in formol when received 

 was a light cream with bluish spots, similar to Dana's figure of 

 (Edipus superbus, the spots were uniformly distributed over the 

 whole body and appendages. 



Total length of largest specimen 25mm., rostrum and telson 

 included. 



Tribe STOMATOPODA. 



GONODACTYLUS CIIIRAGRA, Fabr. 



Gonodactylus chiragra (Fabr.), Dana, Crust. U.S. Explor. Exped., 



i., p. 623, pi. xli., fig. 5. 

 One specimen. 



