16'2 Annals of the Sontli African Museum. 



Locality : Cape Point NE. by E., distant 36 miles. 650 fathoms. 

 1 nonovigerous ? . s.s. " Pieter Faure." 15/7/03. (S.A.M. No. 

 A2792.) 



Geoyr. Distribution : Norway, 60-300 fathoms (Bruzelius, Boeck, 

 Sars) ; Shetlauds (Sp. Bate) ; Skye (Norman) ; Monterey Bay, Cali- 

 fornia, 56 fathoms (Holmes). 



FAMILY OEDICEROTIDAE. 



1865. Oeclicerina Lilljeborg, Nov. Act. Soc. Upsal. ser. 3, vol. 6, no. 1, 



p. 18. 



1871. Oedicerinae Boeck, Forh. Selsk. Christian. 1870, p. 160. 

 1883. Oediceridae Schneider, Trornso Mus. Aarsh. vol. 6 (p. 1). 

 1888. Stebbing, Challeug. Ptep. vol. 29, p. 835. 



1892. G-. 0. Sars, Crust, Norw. vol. 1, p. 286. 



1893. Oediceridi Delia Valle, F. u. Fl. Neapel, vol. 20, p. 531. 

 1906. Oedicerotidae Stebbiug-, Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 235, 726. 



1910. Oedicerosidae Chevreux, Mem. Soc, Zool. Fr. vol. 23, 1910, p. 205. 

 For additional genera see also : 1906. Chevreux, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 

 vol. 31, p. 76; and 1911. Stappers, Due d'Orleans Camp. Ai-ct, 1907, 

 p. 40. 



G-EN. OEDICEROIDES Stebbing. 



1888. Oediceroides Stebbing, I.e. p. 843. 



1892. G-. 0. Sars, I.e. p. 287. 



1896. Bonnier, Ann. Univ. Lyon. vol. 26, p. 640. 



1906. Stebbing, I.e. p. 267. 



1906. Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist, vol. 18, p. 15. 



1907. id. Nat, Ant. Exp. vol. 3, p. 22. 



1910. Stebbing, Sci. Ees. " Thetis," pt. 12, p. 589. 



1911. Chevreux, Ann. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, ser. 3, 



vol. 14, p. 403. 



With the exception of 0. proxi mns Bonnier from the Bay of Biscay, 

 the genus has hitherto been recorded only from the southern oceans. 



OEDICEROIDES CINDERELLA Stebbing. 



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1888. Oediceroides Cinderella Stebbing, I.e. p. 850, pis. 62, 63. 



1893. Halimedon Delia Valle, I.e. p. 540, pi. 58, figs 43-45. 

 1906. Oediceroides Stebbiug, I.e. p. 269. 



Eyes apparently absent. First maxilla with 5 plumose setae on 

 inner plate, in one of the specimens examined a wide gap between the 



