1913-] S. Kemp: Crustacea Stomatopoda of the Indo-Pacific Region. 93 



of similar size being compared. Submedian carinae are very distinct on the last three 

 thoracic and on all the abdominal somites. The last two somites and telson are finely 

 rugose and, frequently, a fine pearly sheen is visible on various parts of the body ; 

 most conspicuously on the under-surface of the telson. The marginal teeth of the 

 telson are rather longer than in 5. raphidea ; there are six to eight submedian denticles, 

 seven to eleven intermediate and one lateral. 



In other structural details 5. annandalei seems to bear an exceedingly close 

 resemblance to the preceding species. There are eight teeth on the raptorial dactylus, 

 a row of stiff spines along the upper margin of the propodus and an acute angular lobe 

 on the lateral margin of the carapace. The single male example has only one raptorial 

 claw and that has obviously been broken off and subsequently regenerated. The dac- 

 tylus shows no trace of the external process found in adult 5. raphidea of the same sex. 

 The pigmentation of the external segment of the outer uropod is quite distinctive 

 and is conspicuous in all the specimens. The segment is entirely jet-black except for a 

 white midrib (fig. 79). In 5. raphidea there is merely a rather indefinite suffusion of 

 black along the inner longitudinal half. There is also a dark transverse patch, some- 

 times broken up into four separate spots, on the second abdominal somite and various 

 short transverse streaks on other somites (fig. 79). For the rest the dark markings 

 resemble those of 5. raphidea ; the two black spots near the proximal end of the 

 telson are distinct and sharply defined. 



The four specimens of Squitta annandalei were all found in comparatively deep 

 water in the Gulf of Martaban : — 



^ Gulf of Maitaban; 61 fms., ' Investigator.' 1 ? , 115 mm. TYPE. 



i4°46'N., 95 52' E. 

 ^~- 8 Gulf of Martaban; 67 fms., 'Investigator.' id\io6mm. 



14 26' N., 96 23' E. 

 — Gulf of Martaban; 55 fms., 'Investigator.' 19, 101 mm. 



i4°54'3o' / N. ) 96 13' E. 

 '-yjp Gulf of Martaban: 53 fms., 'Investigator.' 19.96 mm. 



14 38' 12" N., 96 24' 30" E. 



" Leptosquilla schmeltzii " (A. Milne-Edwards). 

 Plate VII, figs. 81— 83. 



1873. Squitta schmeltzii, A. Milne-Edwards, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, I, iv, p. 87, pi. ii, fig. 7. 

 1880. Squitta schmeltzii, Richters, in Möbius' Meeresfauna Mauritius, p. 168. 

 1880. Leptosquilla schmeltzii, Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), V, p. 13. 



There can be little doubt that the Stomatopod to which this name has been applied 

 is merely a late post-larval example of the genus Squitta. One of its most prominent 

 features, that on which Miers founded the genus Leptosquilla, is the peculiar elongated 

 form of the antennular somite L and it is clear from comparison with Bigelow's figure of 

 the " first stage of the adult form " in Squitta quadridens (1894, p. 548, text-fig. 28) 



1 Miers states that it is " the ophthalmic segment which is greatly elongated and prolonged beyond 

 the rostrum." This is clearly an error. 



