STOMOPODA. 



SQUILLAD.E. 



351 



SQUILL ADM. 



I 



Squilla mantis , Eon del. 



Specific Character. Prehensile finger with six long teeth ; abdomen with eight 

 longitudinal crests, the two central ones near together ; posterior margin of the 

 middle portion of the carapace straight. 



Squilla mantis, RONDEL. Poissons II. p. 307. 



Cancer (mantis') digitalis, HERBIT. II. t. xxxiii. f. i. p. 92. 



Squilla mantis, LATR. Hist, des Crust., &c., VI. t. Iv. f. 3, p. 278. 



Risso, Hist, des Crust, des Env. de Nice, p. 113. 

 Hist. Nat. de 1'Eur. Mend. V. p. 85. EDW. Hist. 

 Nat. des Crust. II. p. 52. 



THE carapace of this species is much narrowed anteriorly, 

 and the anterior angles are slightly spiniform; the rostral 



