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Epistome unarmed. 



First peraeopods both lost. 



Second peraeopod, 4th-6th joints moderately expanded, 6th not 

 wider than 4th or 5th, 4th and 5th with one spine, 6th with 2 spines 

 on outer apex, 4th with one spine on inner apex, 5th with 2, 6th with 

 4 on inner margin, finger f length of 6th ; exopod not seen. 



Peraeopods 3-7 moderately slender. 



Uropod slender, outer ramus twice length of peduncle, 3- jointed, 

 inner ramus as long as pleou, ca. 16-joiuted. 



Length: 3mm.; breadth: '5 nyn. 



Colour: White, eyes apparently not pigmented. 



Locality : Cape St. Blaize N. by E., distance 73 miles. 125 fathoms. 

 1 (? (?). s.s. "Pieter Faure." 21/12/99. (S.A.M. No. A3836.) 



Very close to A. intcnm'ilius Hanseu, 1895, but distinguished by 

 the shorter rostrum, the presence of lateral points on segments 5 and 

 6 only, and by the absence of the epistomal spine. 



APSEUDES AUSTRALIS n. sp. 



(Plate XV. Fig. 2.) 



Body elongate, slender, glabrous. Carapace longer than broad, 

 widening posteriorly, rostrum simple, triangular with a very slender 

 acute apex, ocular lobes triangular with spiuiform apices, eyes absent ; 

 lateral margins biconvex, with a shallow rounded notch marking the 

 limits of 1st peraeou segment, dorsal surface with shallow grooves. 



Second (1st free) segment with rounded lateral portions and a 

 shallow transverse dorsal groove ; segment 3 narrower than 2, with a 

 shallow transverse dorsal groove, antero-lateral angles rounded, postero- 

 lateral angles shortly but acutely produced ; segment 4 a little longer 

 than 3 but narrower, antero-lateral angles produced in outstanding 

 spiuiform processes, postero-lateral angles rounded ; segments 5 and 

 6 similar, longer than broad, narrow in front and widening posteriorly, 

 side margin with an outstanding spiuiform process, postero-lateral 

 angles rounded ; segment 7 shorter and narrower than the preceding, 

 widening distally, with rounded postero-lateral angles but without 

 spiuiform processes. 



Side-plates distinct, on segment 2 produced forwards as spiuiform 

 processes, on 3 much smaller but forming little acute points on autero- 

 lateral angles of the segment, on 4-6 forming small acute points on 

 postero-lateral angles, on 7 extremely small and not visible dorsally. 



Pleon segments 1-5 laterally produced in spiniform processes, 

 directed straight outwards on the first 3, slightly recurved on the last 



