July l6, 1924. Gonodactylus oerstedil Hansen 
#1. ^Almost black olive green white spots. x _ on telson and legs 
apple green, movable finger heliotrope purple. Ventral part of wall of finger 
with rose purple suffusion. 
2 Apple green and black spots with more whitish splotches, considerable 
sulphur yellow on basal joints of tail fan and sides of carapace, movable 
finger pale translucent white. 
$3 General appearance grayish white, sort of a sage green. Movable finger 
porcelain translucent white, carpus of other legs and eyestalks apple green. 
Two distal joints sort of orange ochrac^eous as are margins of pleopods. 
#4 Small,like these with less green and more white, only terminal joint of 
feet with orange color. 
#5 Largest Squilla. Everything fears the big Squilla. Little Squillas and 
flat crabs, P. galathinus, fi« five of these huddled in bunch in open dish 
when Squilla approached them, and other squillasturned and ran arxKa^ or else 
attempted to go on defensive. #5 color general apple green. Squilla snaps 
dactyls open? 
Squillas snap with ball of dactyl against forceps, but without opening 
dactyl. Dactyl and propodus snap as one out from groove of merus. 
