1913-] S. Kemp: Crustacea Stomatopoda of the Indo-Pacific Region. 55 



The colouring of the telson is much the same as in the preceding species, but that 

 of the abdomen is different. The proximal half of the second abdominal somite bears 

 a prominent transverse black patch extending laterally as far as the sinuous groove 

 between the submedian and intermediate carinae and there is also, on the posterior 

 half of the fifth abdominal somite external to each submedian carina, a large well 

 defined quadrate black spot (fig. 44). 



Four specimens in the Indian Museum agree in possessing the above characters : — 



^ Off Andaman Is.; 60 fms. ' Investigator.' 1 tf , 56 mm. ; 1 ? , 36 mm. TYPES. 



^~ Off Cheduba, Arakan Coast ; 7 fms. ' Investigator.' 1 d" , 49 mm. 



^|=i Persian Gulf; 47 fms., 26°24'N., 56°2' E. 'Investigator.' 1 2 , 26 mm. 



I also refer to this species a single specimen which differs from the rest in having 

 the anterior bifurcated part of the rostrum fine but distinct, and absent at the point 

 of junction with the single posterior part of the carina (as in 5. inter rupta) ; the ros- 

 trum also is subtriangular, the margins distinctly more convergent than in typical go ny- 

 petes and the intermediate carinae of the third and the laterals of the fourth abdominal 

 somites do not terminate in spines. In other respects the specimen bears the closest 

 resemblance to those listed above. 



^jf Off Vizagapatam Coast, Madras; 20 fms. ' Investigator.' 1 9 , 47 mm. 



Two specimens from the British Museum collection (recorded by Pocock under 

 the name of Squilla affinis) have also been examined, and one, which is identified with 

 some doubt, kindly lent by Mr. A. Patience : — 



Holothuria Bank, China Seas, 53 fms. H.M.S. ' Penguin.' 2 2 , 25 and 37 mm. 



Mergui Archipelago. Simpson and Rudmose Brown. 1, 33 mm. 



Two of these three specimens have lost their raptorial claws and in them the 

 median carina of the carapace resembles that of the example from the Madras Coast. 

 The other individual (China Seas, 25 mm.) is perfect and is quite typical. 



20. Squilla boops f Kemp. 

 Plate IV, figs. 45—47. 

 1911. (May) Squilla hoops, Kemp (sphalm. boopis), Rec. Ind. Mus., VI, p. 97. 

 1911. (August) Squilla quadraticauda, Fukuda, Annot. Zool. Japon., VII, p. 2S7, pi. xi, figs, 3—5 

 1911. 1 Squilla quadraticauda, Fukuda, Döbuts. Z. Tokyo, XXIII, p. 174, fig. 1. 

 This very distinct species may be readily distinguished from both the preceding 

 by the following characters : — 



1. The rostrum bears a sharp median longitudinal carina. 



2. The eyes (fig. 45) are enormously swollen and expanded ; the breadth of the 



cornea is considerably more than one-third the length of the carapace and 



the cornea of the eye is a trifle more transversely placed than in adults, while there is very little differ- 

 ence in the form of the thoracic lobes. 



1 I have not seen this publication and have no knowledge of the precise date at which it was issued. 

 The paper is, I believe, in the Japanese language. 



