AN ACCOUNT 



OF 



THE STOMATOPODA OF THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION. 



By Stanley Kemp, B.A., 



Assistant Superintendent, Indian Museum. 



Plates I— X. 



Introduction 

 Systematic account 



Squilla 



Pseudosquilla 



Lysiosquilla 



Coronida 



Odontodactylus 



Gonodadylus 

 Addendum 



List of species known from the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific Coast of America 

 Bibliography 

 Index 



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 215 



INTRODUCTION. 



The history of the collection of Stomatopoda in the Indian Museum dates from 

 some twenty years ago when the late Mr. J. Wood -Mason, at the expenditure of 

 much time and energy, devoted himself to the acquisition of a representative series 

 of Indo-pacific species To the small nucleus collection then existing he was able to 

 add numbers of known and unknown forms, not only from the coasts of India, but 

 from New Zealand, Australia, Hongkong, Singapore and Mauritius. 



Mr. Wood-Mason died in 1893, just after completing the arrangement and 

 classification of a large part of the collection. It was hoped that among his papers 

 material for a full account of the species would be found, but this unfortunately did 

 not prove to be the case. A number of figures accompanied by a few rough labora- 

 tory notes alone were available and although his successor, Col. Alcock, was able to 

 edit from these an account of nine species, no connected report on the whole collec- 

 tion has hitherto appeared. Since 1895, when Wood-Mason's descriptions were 



