Edmondson—Stomatopoda in the Bishop Museum 
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SQUILLA Fabricius 
Squilla oratoria de Haan‘. 
Squilla oratoria de Haan, in Siebold’s Fauna Japonica, Crust., Atlas, 
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Squilla affinis Berthold, Abhandi. Gess. Wiss. Gottingen, vol. 5, p. 26, 
1845.—Bigelow, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 17, p. 538, fig. 22, 1894, 
and synonymy. 
Squilla oratoria Kemp, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 4, p. 66, Pl. 5, figs. 
54-56, 1913, and synonymy. 
In the Bishop Museum collection of Squillidae are eight 
specimens of this species, including two females collected at 
Guam by Alvin Seale in 1901, and six specimens, two males and 
four females, obtained by 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 the species. Figure 1, 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 species, 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, New 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 that Stebbing’s view is the correct one. See 
Stebbing, T. R. R., South African Crustacea: Ann. South African Mus., 
vol. 6, p. 45, 1908. 
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