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several specimens in the Indian Musenm resemble that figured by Balss, others are 

 normal or short and with convex margins as in De Haan's figure of 5. harpax. The 

 other characters mentioned by Balss are also seen in some specimens, but it appears 

 quite impossible to correlate them with any particular type of rostrum. 



In most spirit specimens the hinder margins of all the segments of the post-ab- 

 domen except the first and last are defined by a line of black pigment. There are, as 

 a rule, two black spots on the superior margin of the raptorial merus near its distal 

 end, a spot or streak on the inside of the carpus close to the dorsal carina, a spot on 

 either side of the propodus near its distal end and a round and often well-defined spot 

 at the base of the telson on each side of the median carina. The distal ends of the 

 uropods are also suffused with black pigment ; but in the terminal segment of the 

 exopod the suffusion is confined to the inner longitudinal half. 



The following specimens of Squilla raphidea are in the Indian Museum : — 



9 834-40 , 



—■ \ Hongkong. 



Hongkong Museum. 

 G. Dennys. 



18 d 1 , 14 9 , 82 — 179 mm. 



Singapore. 



Port Blair, Andamans. 



Mergui Archipelago. 



Rangoon. 



Off Irrawaddy Delta; 20 fms., 



15 20' N., 94 55' E. 

 Akyab, Tenasserim. 



Raffles Museum, 

 (purchased.) 

 Mus. Collr. 

 Mus. Collr. 

 ' Investigator.' 



I. H. Burkill. 



1 2 , 253 mm. 



1 2 , 124 mm. 



3 c? , 1 2 , 101 — 175 mm. 



1 J , 235 mm. 



icT , I 9 , 53, 100 mm. 



I cj , 193 mm. 



M. of R. Hughli, 

 Ganges Delta, 



9 d 1 , 8 9 , 92 — 300 mm. 



Off Puri, Orissa Coast. 



Off Gopalpur, Ganjam Coast; 



25—28 fms. 

 Off Madras Coast. 

 Ceylon 



Bombay. 



' Golden Crown.' 

 ' Golden Crown.' 



' Golden Crown.' 

 Colombo Museum. 

 ( Bombay Nat, Hist. Soc. 

 I J. Caunter. 



1 d\ 2 2 , 243—288 mm. 

 1 cT , 100 mm. 



1 cf , 152 mm. 

 T d 1 , 127 mm. 



8d , 92 , 72— 335 l mm. 



1 This is, I believe, the largest known Stomatopod. 



