1913-] S. Kemp: Crustacea Stomatopoda of the Indo-Paci fie Region. 69 



Cheefoo, China. Swinhoe. 1 <$ , 76 mm. 



(Miers, 1880, sub S. nepa.) 

 Shanghai. Swinhoe. 



(Miers, 1880, sub S. nepa.) 2 d 1 , 1 9 , 89—103 mm. 



Chusan, China. P. W. Bassett Smith. 3^,49, 31-5—88 mm. 



(Pocock, 1893, sub S. affinis.) 

 The two largest specimens are typical, but in three of the small ones the tubercles on the dorsal 

 aspect of the carpus are undeveloped. 



Foochow, China. F. W. Styan. 3 5 , 78 — 87 mm. 



In the laigest specimen the median carina is not continuous, but shows a small gap on either 

 side near the base of the anterior bifurcation. In one of the smaller specimens also the right 

 limb of the bifurcate part is finely interrupted near its anterior end. 



Amoy, China. Stevens. 1 d" , 1 5 , 101, 108 mm. 



(Miers, 1880, sub S. nepa.) 

 The dorsal punctuation of the carapace and abdomen is very poorly developed. In the larger 

 specimen the anterior half of the bifurcate portion of the median carina of the carapace is 

 entirely missing and a wide gap separates the base of the forked portion from the simple 

 posterior part; in the smaller specimen the carina is, as usual, continuous. In both there 

 are only very feeble indications of the tubercles on the dorsal aspect of the carpus (considering 

 the size of the specimens these should be well developed), the anterior lateral process of the 

 6th thoracic somite is noticeably shorter than the posterior and the anterior process of the 

 7th somite, which in other specimens is acutely produced, is represented merely by a blunt 

 obtuse and rounded angle (fig. 56). The spinulation of the abdomen is normal. 



Philippine Is. H. J. Veitch. 1 d 1 , 8r mm. 



(Miers, 1880, sub S. nepa.) 

 In this specimen the median carina of the carapace is interrupted at the base of the bifurcate 

 part as in var. perpensa and 5. interrupta. For the rest it very closely resembles the 

 Hawaiian examples and those reported from Mauritius, though the rostrum is a trifle shorter. 

 The submedian carinae of the last three, the intermediate carinae of the last five, and the 

 lateral carinae of all six abdominal somites are produced posteriorly in the form of spines. 



The following specimens from other sources have also been examined : — 

 Prof. K. Kishinouye. 



Bay of Tokio, Japan. S " Most common and widely {3^,29, 38—168 mm. 



I distributed " K. K. > 



Mr. Alan Owstou. 



Okinose, Sagami, Japan. 1 d , 1 9 , 150 and 165 mm. 



It is possible that the specimens labelled Mauritius, along with those in the British 

 Museum collection from the Hawaiian and Philippine Is., deserve to be separated from 

 the rest under a distinct varietal or subspecific name, but the material available is not 

 sufficient to justify such a course. It should, however, be remembered that these 

 examples differ from those found on the coasts of China and Japan in the longer rostrum 

 with strongly upturned lateral margins and in the more complete spinous formula 



