300 REV. T. R. R. STEBBING ON STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA MALACOSTRACA 



STOMATOPODA.* 



1817. " Stomapodes" Latreille, Le Rhjne Animal, vol. iii. p. 40. 

 1825. Stomapoda, Latreille, Fam. Nat. du Regne Animal, p. 282. 

 1843. Stomatopoda, Krauss, Siidafrik. Crust., p. 60. 

 1910. ,, Stebbing, Ann. S. A/7: Mus., vol. vi. part iv. p. 404. 



Family Squillid.e. 



1803. " Squillares," Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., vol. vi. p. 270. 

 1880. Squillidx, Miers, Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. v. pp. 1, 108. 



Squilla armatus, Milne-Edwards. 



1837. Squilla armata, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. ii. p. 521. 

 1849. „ „ Nicolet, Gay's Hist, de Chile, " Zool," vol. iii. p. 223. 



1891. ,, „ A. Milne-Edwards, Miss. Cap Horn, "Crust.," p. 53, pi. vii. 



1894. „ ,, Bigelow, Pr. U.S. Mus., vol. xvii. p. 515, text-figs. 9, 10. 



1902. ,, ,, Stebbing, Gilchrist's Mar. Invest., " S.A. Crust.," part ii. p. 45. 



The Scotia obtained a specimen from the stomach of the fish Genypterus 

 capensis. The nutritive part of the crustacean was being digested, but the chitinous 

 sheath still clearly showed the specific characters briefly noted by the elder Milne- 

 Edwards, more fully detailed by Nicolet, and again with good figures set forth 

 by Alphonse Milne-Edwards. 



Locality. — Off Dassen Island, between False Bay and Saldanha Bay, South Africa ; 

 depth from which the fish was taken, between 30 and 40 fathoms. 



• Larval genus Lysioerichthus. 



1886. Lysioerichthus, Brooks, Rep. Voy. " Challenger," vol. xvi. part xlv. pp. 16, 116. 

 1895. Lysierichthus, Hansen, Ergelm. Plankton- Exp., G. c, p. 75. 



This genus contains the larval forms of Lysio squilla, Latreille, 1825. 



Lysioerichthus edwardsii (Eydoux and Souleyet). 



Plate XXVb. 



1837. 1 Erichthus acideatus, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. ii. p. 501, pi. xxviii. fig. 10. 

 1841-1852. Erichthus edwardsii, Eydoux and Souleyet, Voy. "La Bonite," "Zool.," vol. i. part ii. 



p. 260, pi. v. figs. 39-54. 

 1852. Erichthus palliatus, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. xiii. p. 626, pi. xli. figs. 6, a-e. 

 1872. Erichfhoidina armata, Claus, Abhandl. k. Gesellsch. Wiss. Gbttingen, vol. xvi. p. 121, figs. 7, 8. 

 1895. Lysierichthus edioardsii, Hansen, Ergebn. Plankton- Exp., G. c, p. 75, pi. vii. fig. 4-4e, 5-5c. 



Hansen, to whom the above synonymy is due, identifies these variously named 

 larval forms as all belonging to the adult Lysiosquilla glabriusculus (Lamarck), the 

 most advanced stage being E. palliatus, Dana, and the least advanced E. armatus, 

 Claus. The Scotia specimen shows all the spine-like projections proper to the 



* For other Stomatopoda collected by the Scotia see Tattersall, Tr. R. Soc. Edin., vol. xlix. 



