STOMOrODA. 



SQUILLADJ-;. 



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SqUTLLADM. 



Squilla mantis, Rondel. 



Sjxcific Character. — Prehensile finger with six long teeth ; abdomen with eight 

 longitudinal crests, the two central ones near together ; posterior margin of the 

 middle portion of the carapace straiglit. 



.Sifuilla mantis.. Rondel. I'oissons II. p. 397. 



Cancer {mantis) duiitalis, Herbit. II. t. xxxiii. f. 1. p. 92. 



Stfiilki mantis, Latr. Hist, des Crust., &c., VI. t. Iv. f. 3, p. 270. — 



Risso, Hist, des Crust, des Env. dc Nice, p. 113. — 

 Hist. Nat. de I'Eur. Merid. V. p. 85. — Edw. Hist. 

 Nat. des Crust. II. p. 52. 



The carapace of this species is much narrowed anteriorly, 

 and the anterior angles are slightly spiniform; the rostral 



