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Squilla pollta Bigelow 



Squilla polita Bigelow, Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ, Vol. 10, No. 88, 

 p. 93, 1891; Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 17, No. 1017, p. 513, 

 fig. 8, 1894. Kemp, Mem. Indian Mus., Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 201, 

 1913 [listed only]. Kemp and Chopra, Rec. Indian Mus., Vol. 22, 

 p. 298, 1926. Bigelow, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. 72, No. 4, 

 p. 182, 1931. 



Distribution: From Monterey Bay, California, to off Abreojos 

 Point, Lower California, from depths of 23 to 92 fathoms. 



Fig. 2. Squilla polita, female, from Santa Rosa Island, Califor- 

 nia {Albatross Sta. 2902, January 7, 1889). Telson (from Big- 

 elow ) . 



Squilla swetti, new species 



Distribution: Known only from the female holotype (U.S.N.M. 

 No. 76032) and one male and one female paratype dredged off Petatlan 

 Bay, Mexico, south and west of the White Friars Islands, in 25 fathoms, 

 March 2, 1934 (Hancock Exped. Sta. No. 264-34). This species has 

 been named in honor of Mr. W. Charles Swett, Captain Hancock's 

 former aide and executive officer of the Velero III. The holotype is 

 28 mm. in median length of body exclusive of rostrum, carapace 6.7, 

 rostrum 1.2. 



Description: A species in many ways reminiscent of S. fasciata (de 

 Haan)^^ and S. miles Hess,-"*^ yet differing in several particulars from 

 both. Also related to the first of these is S. fallax (Bouvier).^'^ Kemp^^ 



35 Kemp, Mem. Indian Mus., Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 34, pi. 1, figs. 21-23, 1913, and 

 sjTionymy. 



36 Kemp, op. cit.j p. 36, and synonymy. 



37 Bull. Sci. France et Belgique (7), Vol. 48, Fasc. 3, p. 308, text figs. 39-42, 

 1915. 



38 Kemp and Chopra, Rec. Ind. Mus., Vol. 22, Ft. 4, No. 22, p. 300, 1921. 



