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The color of the specimens from Guam, preserved in alco- 
hol, varies from greenish-black to light brown. Some of them 
show distinct mottled yellow and white patches on the exposed 
thoracic and abdominal segments. The dactylus of the rap- 
torial limb is marked by a series of dark spots giving it the 
appearance of being banded. In the specimens from Oahu, pre- 
served in alcohol, the dactylus has a faint rose color, more in- 
tensified near the distal extremity. These latter specimens are of 
a grayish color above, one of them strongly mottled by dark 
pigment, the others to a lesser degree. Black patches on the 
sides of the fifth and sixth thoracic segments and the first 
abdominal segment, as well as on the lateral margins of the first 
five abdominal segments, seem to be characteristic of the speci- 
mens from Oahu. These black patches on the lateral surfaces 
of the segments mentioned above are faintly visible in some of 
the specimens from Guam. 
The largest specimen in the Bishop Museum collection, a 
female from the reef near Koko Head, Oahu, measures 81 mm. 
from the tip of the rostrum to the extremity of the submedian 
marginal spines of the telson. The largest specimen from Guam, 
also a female, measures 60 mm. in length. 
The Bishop Museum specimens are from Guam, the Mar- 
quesas, and Hawaii. 
This species is one of the most widely distributed of the 
known Squillidae. It ranges from Mauritius to the Red Sea, 
Malay . Archipelago, Japan, through the South Seas to Hawaii. 
It has also been taken from the Florida Keys, Bermuda, the 
Bahamas, and at numerous localities about Porto Rico. 
Pseudosquilla oculata ( Brulle). 
Squilla oculata Brullé, in Webb and Berthelot, Isles Canaries, Zoology, 
Crust., p. 18, 1836-1844. 
Pseudosquilla oculata Miers, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 5, 
p. 110, 1880—Bigelow, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 17, p. 500, 
1894.—Borradaile, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 12, p. 214, 1907.— 
Kemp, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 4, p. 102, 1913. 
This species may be distinguished from the more common 
Pseudosquilla ciliata in having club-shaped eyes, a small median 
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