NO. 4 SCHMITT : STOMATOPODS 139 



Genus SQUILLA Fabricius, 1787 



In view of Dr. B. Chopra's-^ discussion of the use of the name Squilla 

 for this genus and his discovery that Clorida Eydoux and Souleyet^*' and 

 not Chloridella Miers^^ would have to be adopted if the International 

 rules of Zoological Nomenclature are to be strictly adhered to, I have 

 been moved to recede from the stand which was taken by Dr. Mary J. 

 Rathbun32 j^ favor of Chloridella and which I have strongly supported 

 in the past. 



Moreover, Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, formerly Secretary of the 

 International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature, with whom I 

 again went over the entire matter a few months ago, has a memorandum 

 from Dr. Rathbun, written in response to his request for her opinion 

 on Dr. Bigelow's^^ petition for a suspension of the Rules in behalf of 

 Squilla. She expressed her approval of it. 



In literature, correspondence, and conversation, by far the greater 

 number of carcinologists are strongly in favor of a suspension of the 

 Rules and the retention of Squilla. At the next meeting of the Inter- 

 national Commission the petition will undoubtedly be favorably acted 

 upon, and so, in the interest of uniformity in stomatopod literature, I 

 shall in this paper and future ones give Squilla precedence, until such 

 time as the Commission may rule otherwise. 



We do not yet know our stomatopods well enough always to deter- 

 mine young, or small, and immature specimens. The adult, mature 

 characters upon which the following keys and descriptions of species are 

 chiefly based are to be found only in specimens of fair or good size for the 

 species. Specimens less than 40 mm. in length and sometimes even larger 

 individuals present difficulties: the lateral processes of the free thoracic 

 somites are rarely sufficiently well developed for satisfactory specific de- 

 termination, especially in forms which have spinous or at least acutely 

 angled processes in the adult; the expected posterior spines of the sub- 

 median carinae of certain of the abdominal somites may also be yet 



29Rec. Indian Mus., Vol. 36, Pt. 1, p. 18, 1934. See also Balss, Bronns Klassen 

 und Ordnungen des Tierreichs, Vol. 5, Abt. 1, Book 6, Pt. 2, Stomatopoda, p. 127, 

 1938. 



30 Voyage autour du Monde sur La Bonite, Zool., 1, Crust., p. 264, 1841. 



31 Ann. Mag, Nat. Hist. (5), Vol. 5, p. 12, 1880. 



32 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 26, p. 54, 1903. 



33 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 175-177, 1931. See also Stiles, 

 Science, Vol. 83, No. 2162, p. 552, 1936; Zool. Anz., Vol. 115 (3/4), p. 110, 1936. 



