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ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS 



VOL. 5 



Squilla aculeata Bigelow 



Squilla aculeata Bigelow, Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ, Vol. 12, No. 106, 

 p. 101, 1893; Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 17, No. 1017, p. 523, 

 figs. 15, 16, 1894. Kemp, Mem. Indian Mus., Vol. 4, No. 1, 

 p. 200, 1913 [listed only]. Lunz, Bull. Bingham Oceanog. Coll., 

 Vol. 5, Art. 5, p. 8, 1937. 



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Fig. 9. Squilla aculeata, male holotype, from Iquique, Chile 

 (collected by Dr. W. H. Jones, U.S.N., January, 1885). a. telson 

 (from Bigelow) ; b. eye. 



The magnification of the telson as originally figured by Bigelow 

 is actually 1% times natural size and not % natural size as 

 stated under his figure (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 17, No. 1017, 

 p. 524, fig. 16, 1894). Also, as the cornea does not appear to me to 

 be quite as transverse as Bigelow depicts it (his fig. 15), the eye 

 has been redrawn. 



Distribution: Teacapan, Sinaloa, Mexico; Panama; and Iquique, 

 Chile. In addition to the 2 specimens which Bigelow examined, the Na- 

 tional Museum now possesses a female 110 mm. in length, taken at 

 Teacapan, Sinaloa, Mexico, by Sr. Carlos Stansch, Direccion Forestal y 

 de Caza y Pesca, Mexico, and 8 others collected by Dr. S. F. Hildebrand, 

 of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, in 1937, in tide pools at Panama: 6?, 

 mostly small (the only large specimen in the lot is 100 mm. long), on the 



