410 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Since the first description of this species, based on a single $ much 

 overgrown with extraneous matter, further specimens have come to 

 light, including the ? . 



Male. The front margin of the head is really more produced 

 than in the original figure. The rostrate process appears to be the 

 epistome. 



Female. Head of the same shape as in <$ . The epistome not 

 nearly so produced as in $ , but projecting slightly beyond the front 

 margin of head, simply rounded. 



Peraeon segment 1 not enlarged as in $ , in fact, scarcely as long 

 as segment 2. 



Mouth-parts as in $ . The absence of the mandibular palp was 

 omitted in the diagnosis of the genus. 



Peraeopod 1 less stout than iu the , 4th joint not apically 

 produced, 5th not much broader than base of (3th, without spines. 



Operculum longer than broad, somewhat pyriform, apex truncate. 



The other peraeopods, the pleopods and ui-opods as in <J. 



Lt'injth : $ 1'75 mm. ; breadth : 1 mm. 



Colour: White, mottled dorsally with grey. 



Locality : Buffel's Bay (False Bay). 28/9/13 and 1/3/15. (K.H.B.) 

 1 $ , 5 ovigerous ? ? and 1 juv. ?. (S.A.M. Nos. A2543 and 

 A3308.) 



FAMILY DESMOSOMIDAE. 



1893. Munnopsidae (part) Stebbing, Hist. Crust, p. 383. 



1897. Desmosomidae Sars, Crust. Norw. vol. 2, p. 118. 



1908. Richardson, Proc, U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. 35 [1909], 



p. 81. 

 1911. id. Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, 1911, No. 7, 



p. 530. 



GEX. ? EUGERDA Mem. 



1890. Emjerda Meinert, Crust. Malacostr. Cruise of the " Hauch," 



p. 194. 

 1897. Sars, I.e. pp. 127, 252. 



Two mutilated specimens are iu the collection, but as they both 

 lack the 1st peraeopods and the uropods it is impossible to ascertain 

 with certainty whether they should be assigned to this genus or to 

 Desmosoma Sars. From the character of the 1st peraeon segment 



