284 Occiisioiia! I'dpi'i's Hcniicc I'. Hishol' .\f iisciiiii 



Tlir v'^loiiiatopoda arr. willioul doulit, Ics^ ahinidant llian MHiie 

 other well-know II groups nf Crustacea ; their L;reat ability when 

 moving" frech' in the water and their ])()wers ot concealment, 

 renderini;- their ca])ture a dit'licull task. nia\-. however, i)artly 

 explain whv a larger nunil)er of S(|uillidae ha\'e not heen docrihed. 



l']) to the ])resent time the nuinher ot' s)>ecies rei)orted is 

 prohahK' helow one hundred and fifty and. on consulting;" the litei'- 

 attire. one finds that not a few of this nuniher have heen de^crihed 

 from one or two s])ecimens. 



Althoui^h the collection of Stomato])o(la in the Bishop Museum 

 is at present not larye, yet a considerahle degTee of interest is 

 attached to it from a distrilnitional point of view. 



The collection comprises fifty-three specimens, grouped under 

 six genera and nine s])ecies, one of which is new. Of the fifty- 

 three specimens ten are recorded from (Uiam, four from Tahiti, 

 and two from the Marcjuesas. the other thirty-seven heing from 

 Hawaii. 



Representatives from the Hawaiian waters are listecl under 

 six g'enera and eight s])ecies. H one may infer from the fre(|uency 

 with which they are taken, three of the species of Squillidae found 

 in Hawaiian waters exist in much greater number on the reefs 

 and in the shallow water about the islands than do the other five 

 species. 



PsciidosLjiiilla ciliata Miers, a widel}' distributed species, is 

 very common on the reefs about Oahu. Another species of the 

 same genus, Pseiidosqiiilla ocuhtta (i)rulle). ])reviously reported 

 from the Canaries. Madeira. Cape \'erde Islands. Mauritius. 

 Chag'os, Samoa, and the China Sea. has frecjuently been taken 

 from the dead coral blocks on W'aikiki reef, Honolulu. A third 

 species, Sqiiilla oratoria de llaan, more or less common in Chinese 

 and Japanese waters, has several times been found in the llono- 

 lulu fish market during the ])resent year. l)ut the writer has never 

 taken the species from the reefs about ( )ahu and is unal)le to say 

 where the fishermen obtain it. 



Other s])ecies of S<|uil]idae taken from I lawaiian waters are. 

 for the most part, represented in the llishop Museum collection by 

 single specimens. 



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