Proceedings of the United States National Museum SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . WASHINGTON, B.C. Volume 124 1968 Number 3641 Stoinatopod Crustacea from Madagascar By Raymond B. Manning Chairman, Department of Invertebrate Zoology This report is based on four different collections of stomatopods from the island of Madagascar (Malagasy Republic) and adjacent islands, including the Comoro Islands (Comores) and He Europa. Two of the collections were made available for study by M. Michel Pichon, Centre d'Oceanographie et des Peches, Nosy Be, Madagascar, and by A. G. Humes, Boston University, at that time the field chief on Madagascar for the International Indian Ocean Expedition. The third collection was made by several individuals under the auspices of the U.S. Program in Biology, International Indian Ocean Expedi-tion; most of this series of specimens was collected by J. Rudloe while at Madagascar on assignment from the Smithsonian Institution Oceanographic Sorting Center. The fourth and most important collection was assembled by Alain Crosnier, now at the Centre d'Oceanographie et des Peches, Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, over a period of several years while working at the Centre d'Oceano-graphie et des Peches (O.R.S.T.O.M.) in Nosy Be, Madagascar. Together, all of these materials indicate the richness of the stomato-pod fauna of Madagascar. The collections reported herein include 28 species, approximately one-half of the stomatopods known from the western Indian Ocean, of which six species are described as new. All 10 species previously recorded from Madagascar are represented in the collections reported in this paper. 1
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