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Mantis. The fishermen in Provence, from their having 

 apparently a greater number of legs than other Crustacea, 

 and from their long, jointed bodies somewhat resembling 

 those of the centipede, call them Galero, which means 

 many-legged, or Scolopendra* The species found in the 

 Mediterranean are generally found at considerable depths ; 

 they live in sandy places where they can easily procure their 

 food, which seemed to M. Roux to consist chiefly of anne- 

 lids and fragments of the Actinia effoeta* 



According to Risso, the females, when they wish to de- 

 posit their eggs, which they have under their abdominal 

 appendages, retire to rocky places. The Squilla are timid, 

 avoiding danger; they swim much after the fashion of 

 Lobsters. 



Squilla Desmarestii, Risso. (Plate IX. fig. 6.) — Cara- 

 pace scarcely ridged; rostral plate elongated and rounded 

 in front ; fang of first pair of legs with five teeth. Abdomen 

 smooth and swollen in the middle, and with three longitu- 

 dinal crests on each side. It is of a yellowish colour clotted 

 with brown, but is sometimes of a delicate rosy hue. Length 

 about four inches. 



Off Brighton and Cornwall, and at Guernsey. Dr. Lukis, 

 * Roux, Crust, de la Medit. pi. v. 



