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lected in the Philippines by H. J. Veitch, is preserved in the 

 Britisli Museum collection. 



For the new species the name Gonodactylus proximus is sug- 

 gested. It belongs to a group of five very closely allied forms, 

 the characters of which I have discussed in some detail. Owing 

 to the kindness of Dr. W. T. Caiman I am able to give some 

 further particulars, which I believe will be welcome, regarding 

 the structure of G. tuberosus, a species briefly described by 

 Pocock from the China seas. 



Of Squilla hieroglyphica, represented in the collection by a 

 single example, only one specimen of unknown locality has 

 previously been recorded. Pseudosquilla megalophthalma was 

 hitherto known only from the Red Sea and Mauritius and Gono- 

 dactylus spinosissimus only from the Red Sea, Zanzibar, and 

 off Ceylon. If my identification is correct Gonodactylus glaber 

 must also extend far to the east of the localities in which it 

 has previously been found. Lysiosquilla vicina, a most inter- 

 esting species, which like its near relative in California seems 

 to inhabit burrows made by Balanoglossv^, has hitherto been 

 known only from Nobili's mutilated type specimen taken in 

 the Red Sea. Lysiosquilla multifasciata, another scarce form, 

 is represented in the collection by a series of nine specimens 

 which illustrate the manner in which the characteristic pigmen- 

 tation is developed. 



I have to express my best thanks to Dr. R. P. Cowles, of the 

 University of the Philippines, for the opportunity of examining 

 this interesting collection. 



STOMATOPODA 



■«Genus SftUILLA Fabricius 



Squilla scoi-pio Latreille. 



Squilla scorpio Kemp, Mem. Ind. Mus. (1913), 4, 42, PI. II, fig. 30. 



No. 0-133. Bantayan, Cebu Province, 1909, 2 d", 83 mm. 



The two individuals are adult males; the carinas of the last 

 abdominal somite and telson and the bases of the primary 

 teeth of the latter are strongly inflated, while the raptorial 

 claws exhibit the characteristic features of the sex. The speci- 

 mens seem to have deteriorated somewhat in alcohol, and unlike 

 much older examples in the Indian Museum collection, the black 

 patch on either side of the fifth thoracic somite, mentioned in 

 Latreille's original description, is scarcely visible; the other 

 characters, however, clearly indicate that the specimens must 

 be referred to the typical form and not to the variety immaculata. 



