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Show 1900.] FROM SINGAPORE AND MALACCA. 725 C. aculeata, and a reference to the text confirms this ; for there named Maia (Chorinus) longispina, and said to be " Ch. aculeato Edw. proximus." Dim. o*23-5x28. o* 13x17-5. o* 8-5x11-5. 6 6-75x10-5. X. Genus SCHIZOPHRYS White. 13. SCHIZOPHRYS ASPERA M.-Edw. Mithrax aspera, M.-Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust, t. i. p. 320 (1834). Dione affinis, de Haan, Crust. Japon. p. 94, pi. xxii. f. 4 (1839). Schizophrys serratus, Ad. & White, ' Samarang' Crust, p. 16 (1848). Schizophrys aspera, A. M.-Edw. Nouv. Arch. Mus. t. viii. p. 231, pl.x. f. 1 (1872): Hasw. Cat. Austr. Crust, p. 22 (1882); Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xx. p. 109 (1887). Hab. Singapore and Malacca. A male and two females from Malacca, all of the typical form ; a young male from Singapore, also typical. Littoral. Dim. 6 15-5x19. 6 6-5x8-5. $24-5x31. $16-5x20-5. XI. Genus MICIPPA Leach. 14. MICIPPA MASCARENICA Kossmann. Micippa philyra, Leach, Zool. Misc. iii. p. 16 (1817) (nee M.philyra Herbst); M.-Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust, t. i. p. 330 (1834). Micippa philgra, var. mascarenica, Kossm. Zool. Ergebn. Reise roth. Meeres, p. 7, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1877). Micippa mascarenica, Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xv. p. 7 (1885); Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xx. p. 109 (1887). Hab. Singapore ; littoral. Two males and two females. There are five tuberculiform teeth behind the postorbital tooth in the males, of which the 3rd and 4th are absent in the females. Dim. 6 7-5x10. <510x12-5. $10x13. $7-25x9. 15. MICIPPA CURTISPINA Haswell. Micippa curtispina, Hasw. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W . vol. iv. p. 446, pi. xxv. f. 1 (1879); Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xx. p. 109 (1887). Hab. Singapore; littoral. One female with ova. As iu M. mascarenica, the lateral spines of the female are irregular : the five that Prof. Haswell mentions as bordering the postero-lateral and posterior margins are only represented iu this specimen by two well-developed teeth on the postero-lateral augle. The subapical rostral lobes are well-developed. Dim. 8-5x10. 16. MICIPPA EXCATATA, sp. nov. (Plate XLIV. fig. 1.) Hab. Singapore ; 5-6 fms. A male and an ova-bearing female. This form comes nearest to the M. curtispina of Prof. Haswell. |
