394 DR. W. M. TATTERSALL ON THE STOMATOPODA AND 



Super-family Crang-onoida. 



Family PROOESSID^. 



Genus Nikoides, Paulson, 1875, p. 98. 

 Nikoides sp. ? 



Locality. Station VIII. C, one specimen, 8 mm. 



Remarks. I am unable to determine this specimen with any degree of 

 certainty, and as the left leg of the first pair and both legs of the second 

 pair are broken it is not possible to give an adequate description. It differs 

 from the description of N. dance, Paulson, as given by Nobili in the 

 following particulars : — 



(1) The rostrum is very much shorter, hardly extending as far forward 



as the proximal margin of the cornea of the eye ; it is acute with a 

 single small acute dorsal tooth quite near the apex ; on each side of 

 the base of this tooth there springs a single strong seta which 

 extends forward to the apex of the rostrum. 



(2) The exopod of the first pair of walking legs is very much shorter 



and barely extends beyond the ischiopodite. 



(3) There are no spines on the ischius and merus of the last three pairs 



of legs, which are otherwise in close agreement with Nobili's 

 description. 



In the last two characters my specimen approaches N. maldivensis, Borra- 

 daile, 1915, p. 209, but I am unable to institute a comparison with that 

 species in the characters of the first legs, and Borradaile's description of the 

 rostrum of iV. maldivensis does not agree with what I have observed in 

 the present specimen. 



The chelate leg of the first pair, which is present in my specimen on the 

 right side, agrees closely with Nobili's description of that -appendage in 

 iV. dance. 



Suborder REPTANTIA. 



Tribe ANOMURA. 



Super-family TTialassinidea. 



Family AXIIDvE, Bate, 1888. 



Genus Axiopsis, Borradaile, 1903, p. 538. 



Axiopsis iETHiopicA, Nobili, 1904, p. 235. 

 A. tsthiopica Nobili, 1906 a, p. 03, pi. 6. fig-. 1. 

 Locality. Station V. E, one specimen, 19 mm. 



