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SQUILLA I'ahricius 



Squilla oratoria de Haall^ 



Sqiiilla oratoria de Haan, in Siebokl's Fauna Japonioa, Crust., Atlas, 

 PI. 51, %. 2, 1844. 



Squilla affiiiis Bertholii, Ahhandl. Gess. Wiss. Gottingen, vol. 5, p. 26, 

 1845. — Higelovv, Proc. U. S. Xat. Alus., vol. 17, p. 538, fig. 22, 1894, 

 and synonymy. 



Squilla oratoria Kemp, ]\Iem. Indian ]\lus., vol. 4, p. 66, PI. 5, figs. 

 54-56, 1913, and s3'nonyniy. 



In the r>ishop IMuseuni collection of Sqnillidae are eight 

 specimen.s of this .species, including" two females collected at 

 Guam by Alvin Scale in 1901, and six specimens, two males and 

 four females, ol^tained 1)\- the writer from the Honolulu market 

 during 1921. 



The specimens from Guam agree in all details with those 

 from Honolulu, and all are in accord with previously published 

 descriptions of tlie species. Figure i, a, represents the male acces- 

 sory organ of the first abdominal appendage of a specimen from 

 Honolulu. The color of the specimens obtained from the Honolulu 

 market in a fresh condition was reddish-brown with the uropods 

 marked with black patches. The dactyli were much lighter in color 

 than the carapace and abdomen. The alcoholic specimens from 

 Guam are uniformly light brown above. 



The largest specimen in the Bishop Museum collection, a 

 female from Honolulu, measures 165 mm. from the tip of the 

 rostrum to the extremity of the submedian marginal spines of 

 the telson. 



The s]:)ecies, represented in the Bishop Museum by the 

 specimens from Honolulu and Guam, is apparently abundant in 

 Chinese and Japanese waters. It has also been reported from 

 Mauritius, Ceylon. Xew Zealand, and the Philippine Islands. 



''The specific name of this species has been the basis of some contro- 

 versy. I have given preference to de Haan's name instead of that of 

 Berthold as it would seem tliat Stebbing's view is the correct one. See 

 Stebbing, T. R. R., South African Crustacea : Ann. South .-Xfrican ]\lus., 

 vol. 6, p. 45, 1908. 



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