SQUILLA. 
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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 Squill ce are timid, 
avoiding danger ; they swim much after the fashion of 
Lobsters. 
Sqtjilla 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 dotted 
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. 
