70 Annals of the South African Museum. 



taken in False Bay, Cape Point Lighthouse, W. 6| miles ; depth, 

 37 fathoms, was 22'5 mm. long. The species was also dredged in 

 47 fathoms, lat. 33 9' 30" S., long. 28 3' 00" E. Dr. Chilton, in 

 his report on " Crustacea from the Coast of Auckland," says of this 

 species : " One imperfect specimen dredged off Great Barrier Island, 

 at a depth of 120 fathoms, appears to belong to this species. I have 

 also two specimens dredged off the Poor Knights Islands, in 40 

 fathoms, and two others collected in Kaipara Harbour by Dr. 

 Cockayne, that certainly belong to it. " 



AMPELISCA FUSCA, Stebbing. 



1888. Ampelisca fusca, Stebbing, Challenger Amphipoda, Eeports, 



vol. xxix., pp. 1052, 1651, pi. 105. 

 1893. Ampelisca fusca, Delia Valle, Fauna und Flora des Golfes von 



Neapel, vol. xx., p. 483. 



1906. Ampelisca fusca, Stebbing, Das Tierreich, Amphipoda, p. 102, 

 ' figs. 22-24. 



The dark colour of the Challenger specimens, to which the specific 

 name alludes, was probably due to the preservative employed. The 

 specimens more recently received from the Cape show no such 

 obfuscation, but retain, for a considerable period, brilliant colouring, 

 red spots and broader markings on a green ground. The eyes have 

 a bright red pigment and the antennae a banded appearance. In the 

 Challenger report the first antennae are described as longer than the 

 second, but the comparative dimensions are at any rate sometimes 

 inverted. Also in the new specimens the fingers of the first and 

 second peraeopods have a less comparative length, and the fifth 

 perasopods differ a little from the earlier account. The lower lobe of 

 the second joint has its setigerous hind margin straight, or some- 

 times tending to be concave rather than convex, and the sixth joint 

 is not so much narrowed apically as in my figure of it. Otherwise 

 the agreement between the two sets of specimens is so minute as to 

 leave no room for supposing any specific difference between them. 

 One of the specimens measured 15 mm. in length. 



Locality. Dredged Vasco de Gama Point, S. 75 E. 13^ miles, at 

 166 fathoms. 



AMPELISCA BREVICOKNIS (Costa). 

 1853. Araneops brevicornis, A. Costa, Rend. Soc. Borbon., n. ser., 



vol. ii., p. 171. 

 1891. Ampelisca Icevigata, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. i., p. 169, 



pi. 59, fig. 1. 



