88 Annals of the South African Mviseum. 



specimen. The first and second perasopods have the fourth joint 

 much longer than the fifth or sixth, the sixth tapering, rather longer 

 than the fifth, the finger needle-like. The third, fourth, and fifth 

 perseopods all have the second joint narrow. The third pair corre- 

 spond with the detached unnumbered peraeopod figured in the 

 Challenger report. The fourth and fifth pairs are much longer 

 than the third pair, and have the fifth joint much shorter than the 

 fourth or sixth. 



The marsupial plates, especially those of the first and second 

 peraeopods are long, strongly fringed, and are evidently assisted in 

 their function by the long narrow branchial vesicles. 



Length of the specimen 11 mm. 



Locality. Lat. 33 9' 30" S., long. 28 3' 0" E. Depth, 47 fathoms ; 

 bottom, sand, shell and rock. The Challenger specimen, 16 mm. 

 long, was taken off New Zealand in lat. 40 28' S., long. 177 43' E., 

 at a reputed depth of 1,100 fathoms. 



Professor Coutiere discusses the relationship of Camacho batliy- 

 plous and Bonnier 's Chevreuxius grandimanus to his own Grandi- 

 ii/crdla mahafalensis from Madagascar. A second species of 

 &randidierella is now known, but not yet published. 



