36 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IV, 



According to a colour-sketch kindly made for me from the smallest specimen by 

 Capt. R. B. Seymour Sewell, the median part of the carapace is, in life, dark brown 

 throughout its length. This patch of colour encloses a large, pale, oval spot in the 

 anterior half and further back is very much narrowed. The carinae of the abdomen 

 are brown, and this colour also defines the position of the non-existent median and 

 submedian carinae. The eyes are golden yellow. The marginal spines of the telson 

 and the distal portions of both inner and outer uropods are deeply suffused with 

 reddish purple. 



There are three specimens of 5. fasciata in the Indian Museum : — 



^P Port Blair, Andamans. (Purchased). 1 9 , 68 mm. 



s |^ Off Tavoy Point, 50 fms., ï3°2o/ N., 97°3o' E. ' Investigator.' 1 Ç , 40 mm. 



~ Port Maria, Elphinstone I., Mergui Archipelago ' Investigator.' icf , 56 mm. 



Through the kindness of Prof. K. Kishinouye I have been able to compare these 

 specimens with an example from Japan : the specimens are in close agreement. Prof. 

 Kishinouye informs me that the species is very rare in Japanese waters. His example, 

 a male, 79 mm. in length, is encrusted with a Polyzoon, Triticetta korenii, Sars (see 

 p. 7) and was found in the Bay of Tokio. 



Previous records of S quitta fasciata are not numerous. It is known from Japan, 

 Inland sea and other localities (De Haan, Brooks, de Man, Rathbun) and in Chinese 

 waters from Chusan, 10 — 14 fathoms, and Holothuria Bank, 34 — 36 fathoms (Po- 

 cock). 



8. Squilla miles, Hess. 



. Squilla miles, Hess, Arch. f. Naturgesch., XXXI, i, p. 169, pi. vii, fig. 21. 



: Squilla miles, Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5). V, p. 17. 

 882. Squilla miles, Haswell, Cat. Australian Crust., p. 207. 



. Squilla miles, de Mau, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., II, p. 714. 

 894. Squilla miles, Bigelow, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, p. 509. 



I have seen no examples of this fine species. It appears to be allied to the pre- 

 ceding, but is readily distinguished by the following characters : — 



1. The antero-lateral angles of the carapace are not spinous. 



2. The rostrum is somewhat longer than broad. 



3. l The cornea of the eye is not so distinctly wider than the stalk. It is set 



obliquely ; but the obliquity is the reverse of that usually found, the inner 

 margin of the stalk being shorter than the outer. 



4. The dactylus of the raptorial claw bears only four teeth, including the terminal 



one. 



5. l The lateral margin of the fifth thoracic somite is bluntly rectangular, not 



spinous and antrorse as in the preceding species. 



1 For this information I am indebted to Dr. W. T. Caiman, who, at my request, made an 

 examination of the specimen in the British Museum. 



