General Catalogue of South African Crustacea. 465 



1900. C., Mayer, F. und Fl. Neapel, vol. xvii. 



In this " Nachtrag zu den Caprelliden " I cannot find the 

 Latin term Caprellidas anywhere actually used by Dr. Mayer. 

 1903. C., Mayer, Die Caprellidae der Siboga Expedition, p. 3. 



In this and the two preceding works probably everything of 

 any importance that has been written on this family down to 

 1903 will be found taken into consideration. 

 1910. C., Stebbing, Thetis Exp. N.S. Wales, Mem. iv., pt. 5, pp. 629, 



651. 



The words "Family CAPBELLIDJE," which should have 

 formed the fifth line on p. 629, were accidentally omitted. 



GEN. CAPEELLA, Lamarck. 



1801. Caprella, Lamarck, Systeme des Animaux sans Vertebres, 



p. 165. 

 1888. C., Stebbing, Challenger Amphipoda, Eeports, vol. xxix., 



p. 1251. 

 1903. C., Mayer, Siboga Exp., pp. 14, 72. 



: CAPRELLA PENANTIS, Leach. 



1813. Gaprclla penantis, Leach, Edinb. Encycl., vol. vii., p. 404. 



1816. C. acutifrons, Latreille, Nouveau Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vol. v., 

 p. 433. 



1888. C. penantis, Stebbing, Challenger Amphipoda, Eeports, vol. 

 xxix., p. 1694. 



1903. C. acutifrons, Mayer, Siboga Exp., p. 79, pi. 3, figs. 4-28, pi. 7, 



figs. 62-65. 



Of this species Dr. Mayer describes on p. 81, " Var. \ natal- 

 ensis (pi. 3, figs. 22 and 23). From the Stockholm Museum, 

 collected by Vahlberg in Port Natal, a male about 13 mm. 

 long, quite smooth, only on the fourth segment a postero- 

 dorsal tubercle, which however is sometimes only a little 

 prominent. The front antennae moderately thickened, the 

 nagelluni with 13 (in the female 11) articulations ; hinder 

 antennae longer than the combined first and second joints of 

 the front pair. Large grasping hand not setose ; venom - 

 tooth proximal ; inner margin of the finger angular. On the 

 perasopods both clasping-spines proximal; truncate spines 

 more on the outer side, 6-8 (very difficult to count). A single 

 male, which probably also belongs here, I found in material 

 from Cape Town (collected by W. I. Issaef, 15/12/1888, 



