390 Annals of the South African Museum. 



agree closely with Heller's account of his species, and with 

 Bate's and Coutiere's figures of the smaller cheliped, which 

 in this example is on the right of the animal. In the second 

 peraeopods the first two carpal jointlets are respectively 4 mm. 

 and 2 - 5 mm., as compared with the relation 5:3 given hy 

 Heller, but very different from those assigned by Dr. de Man 

 to two female specimens from the Mergui Archipelago. These 

 are given as 4^ for the first, and 4J for the second joint in one 

 example, and in the other 2* for the first, and 2i for the 

 second, with the remark that " It was a specimen belonging 

 to this variety which was figured in the ' Novara Eeise.' ' 

 The Algoa Bay specimen measures about 46 mm. from 

 rostrum to end of telson. 



FAMILY HIPPOLYTIDJE. 



1M88. Hippolytidce, Bate, Challenger Macrura, Eeports, vol. xxiv., 

 p. 576. 



1905. H., Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 3, p. 97. 



1906. H., Caiman, Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, vol. xvii., p. 29. 



1910. H., Kemp, Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1908, I. [1910], 

 pp. 36, 99. 



GEN. HIPPOLYTE, Leach. 



1814. Hippolytc, Leach, Edinb. Encycl., vol. vii., p. 431. 

 1860. Virbius, Stimpson, Pr. Ac. Sci. Philad., p. 104 (35). 

 1910. H., Kemp, Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1908, I. [1910], 

 p. 100. 



HIPPOLYTE ENSIFERA, Milne-Edwards. 



1837. Hippolytc ensiferus, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. ii., 



p. 374. 



Milne-Edwards states that the rostrum is very large, 

 lamellar, and that the carpus is biarticulate in the second 

 perseopods, so that the generic position of this species is 

 doubtful. 

 1843. H. e., Krauss, Siidafrik. Crust., p. 56. 



Specimens in the Stuttgart Museum, brought by von Ludwig 

 from the Cape in 1828. The length is given as 7 lines, equal 

 to about 15 mm. 



