158 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Length : 7 mm. 



Colour : In spirit yellowish. 



Locality : Great Fish Point Lighthouse N. by W., distant 9 miles. 

 49 fathoms. 1 nonovigerous 2 . s.s. " Pieter Faure." 4/9/01. (S.A.M. 

 A174.) 



The resemblance of the head, 1st peraeon segment and side-plates, 

 and to a less extent the rest of the peraeon and pleon, to Lepechinella 

 chnjsotheras Stebb. is rather curious. 



TEMNOPHLIAS n. g. 



Lateral portions of peraeon segments not contiguous ; telson entire, 

 pyriform, longer than broad ; antennae short ; lobes of 2nd maxilla 

 fused basally ; palp of maxilliped 2-jointed ; 1st and 2nd gnathopods 

 similar, simple ; 2nd and 3rd peraeopods chelate in $ ; peduncle of all 

 the pleopods strongly produced ; all the uropods uniramous (a small 

 fixed rudiment of a second ramus in 1st and 2nd), in 3rd uropod 

 peduncle and ramus fused. 



Generic name composed of Te/ja/u, to cut, and Phlias, the original 

 genus of the family, in allusion to the discontinuous peraeon segments 

 and side-plates. 



TEMNOPHLIAS CAPENSIS n. sp. 

 (Plate XXVI. Figs. 25-35.) 



Body broad, oval. Head free, not sunk within 1st peraeou segment, 

 rostrum triangular, reaching to level of autero-lateral angles which are 

 rounded, margin between rostrum and these angles deeply concave. 

 Eyes shortly oval, situate in the antero- lateral angles. 



Peraeon smooth, glabrous, the lateral portions of the segments not 

 contiguous. Side-plates subrectangular, inferior margin slightly 

 eniarginate. 



Pleon segments 4 to 6 flexed under peraeon, segment 2 in the 3- with 

 a pair of submedian tubercles on anterior portion, another larger pair 

 near posterior margin curving forwards, posterior margin slightly 

 produced backwards as a rounded lobe overlapping segment 3, no 

 tubercles in $ . 



Telson pyriform, longer than broad, lateral margins rather concave 

 in 3 , apex subacute, lateral margins and upper apical surface setose. 



First antenna, 1st joint stout, a trifle broader than long, 2nd sub- 

 quadrate, upper (outer) apex of 1st and 2nd joints subacutely produced, 

 3rd shorter, cylindrical, flagellum equal to 2nd joint, obscurely 2-3 

 jointed, lower (inner) apex of 1st joint bevelled off and furnished with 



