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With regard to the present specimens, in spite of the absence of an 

 adult $ , I have no hesitation in assigning them to this species. The 

 fiagellar joints of the antennae are a little fewer in number (15 in both 

 antennae), but otherwise the agreement is exact, down to the orna- 

 mentation on the 2nd joint of the ramus of the 3rd uropod. 



This last character and the much less strongly expanded 4th joint 

 of peraeopods 3-5, as well as the hand and finger of the 2nd 

 gnathopod in the $ , will serve to distinguish this species clearly 

 from S. adhaerens Stebbiug. 



In S. cremdata Chevreux has described the mandibles as having in 

 the place of the palp a small setiferous tubercle. The same peculiarity 

 is found in the present specimens, but the tubercle is sharper pointed 

 than in Chevreux' s figure and bears a seta at its base. 



Length : Ovigerous ? 3 mm. 



Colour : Whitish, eyes rather indistinct. 



Locality : Durban. July, 1915. (H. W. Bell-Marley.) 1 ovigerous 

 $ and 3 juv. (S.A.M. No. A3846.) 



Geogr. Distribution : Ceylon (Walker) ; G-ambier Archipelago, 0-25 

 metres (Chevreux : cremdata) ; Seychelles, 36 fathoms, and Zanzibar 

 (Walker). 



S. tpinimana Chevreux (Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 23, 1910, p. 197, 

 text-fig. 7 and pi 12, figs. 1-12), from Algeria appears closely allied to 

 this species. 



FAMILY PHLIANTIDAE. 



1899. Phliadidae Stebbiug, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, Zool. vol. 7, 



p. 414. 



1906. . Chevreux, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 31, p. 87. 



1906. Phliantidae Stabbing, Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 200, 726. 



1909. Chilton, Tr. X. Zeal. lust. vol. 41, p. 61. 



1910. Kimkel, Tr. Conn. Ac, Sci. vol. 16, p. 19. 

 1910. PMiasidae Chevreux, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 23, p. 201. 



PLIOPLATEIA u. g. 



Fifth and sixth pleon segments very short and indistinct, telsou 

 transverse, entire ; 1st antenna larger than second, neither very short; 

 1st maxilla with inner plate, 6-7 spines on outer plate and a very small 

 but distinct palp ; 2nd maxilla with inner and outer plates fused at 

 base; palp of maxilliped long, 4- jointed; 1st and 2nd guathopods 

 similar, subchelate ; the three posterior peraepods stouter and longer 

 than the anterior two, 2nd joints not expanded ; rami of 1st and 2nd 



