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outer with 6 deep indents on outer margin, inner ramus with 2 such 

 indents on outer margin (1 near middle, the other nearer apex) and 1 

 in middle of inner margin, both margins of inner ramus and inner 

 margin of outer ramus finely serrulate. 



Third uropod, rami subequal, equal to those of 2nd in length, but 

 broader, ovate, more rapidly narrowed distally, 2nd joint on outer 

 rarnus indistinguishable, both margins of inner ramus and inner 

 margin of outer ramus finely serrulate. 



Length : 16 mm. 



Colour : In spirit, pale pinkish, eyes red. 



Locality : Lion's Head N. 67 3 E. distant 25 miles (off Cape Penin- 

 sula). 131 fathoms. 2 <$. s.s. " Pieter Faure." 28/3/00. 

 (S.A.M. No. A130.) 



The specific name in allusion to the small number of spines on the 

 palm of the 1st gnathopod, compared with the other three species of 

 the genus. 



This species resembles T. nicaeense Costa in the general shape of the 

 hand of 1st gnathopod, the trunk of the mandible and the rostrum ; it- 

 resembles T. raschi Esm and Boeck in the inner plate of the maxilli- 

 ped. It is, however, far more closely allied to the other South 

 African species T. remipes Stebbing ; the characters in which it agrees 

 being : rostrum, trunk of mandible and palp, palp of maxilliped, first 

 and second antennae, second gnathopod, 2nd joint of 3rd 5th peraeo- 

 pods, telson and xiropods. It is distinguished from the latter in 

 having none of the joints of the peraeopods expanded except the 2nd 

 on 3rd-5th peraeopods, in the details of the uropods, as well as in the 

 three characters which separate it from the two northern species, 

 namely : eyes, palm of 1st gnathopod and side-plates. 



GEN. STOMACONTION Stebbing. 



1888. Acuntiostoma (part) Stebbing, Challeug. Eep. vol. 29, p. 709. 

 1899. Stomacontion id. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Sci. 7 vol. 4, p. 205. 



Chilton (1912, Tr. Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. 48, pt, 2, p. 463) doubts 

 whether this genus should be separated from Acontiostoma. The 

 present species in having, apparently, no palp to the 1st maxilla and 

 a quite rudimentary 4th palpal joint to the maxilliped affords further 

 evidence that the two genera should be reunited. 



STOMACONTION CAPENSE n. sp. 

 (Plate XXVIII. Figs. 27, 28.) 

 Very like S. pepinlt (Stebb.), but differing from it, and from 



