170 Annals of the So^^th African Museum. 



FAMILY PARAMPHITHOIDAE. 



1871. Epimerinae Boeck, Porh. Selsk. Christian. 1870, p. 183. 



1888. Epimeridae Stebbing, Challeng. Eep. vol. 29, p. 876. 



1893. G. 0. Sars, Crust. Norw. vol. 1, p. 362. 



1906. Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 7, vol. 18, p. 17. 



1906. Paramphithoidae Stebbing, Das Tierreich, 21, p. 320. 



1908. ,, id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool., vol. 30, 



p. 191. 

 1912. Chevreux, Bull. Mus. Paris, no. 4, p. 215. 



GEN. EPIMEEIA Costa. 



1793. Gammarellus (part) Herbst. Naturgesch. Krabb. Krebs. vol. 2, 



p. 106. 



1851. Epimeria Costa in Hope, Cat. Crost. Ital. p. 46. 

 1888. Stebbing, I.e. p. 877. 

 1893. G-. O. Sars, I.e. p. 363. 

 1906. Walker, I.e. p. 16. 

 1906. Stebbing, I.e. pp. 321, 728. 

 1912. Chevreux, I.e. p. 215. 



EPIMERIA CORNIGEEA (Fabr.). 



1779. Gammarus corniger Fabricius, Keise Norweg. p. 383. 

 1871. Epimeria cornigera Boeck, I.e. p. 185. 

 1893. G-. 0. Sars, I.e. p. 364, pi. 128. 



1893. Acanthonotosoma cornigerwtn (part) Delia Valle, F. u. Fl. Neapel. 



vol. 20, p. 676, pi. 59, fig. 85. 



1906. Epimeria cornigera Stebbing, I.e. p. 323 (synonymy). 

 1911. Sexton, J. Mar. Biol. Ass. n.s. vol. 9, pt. 2, 



p. 210. 



The South African specimen differs from Stebbing's description 

 and Sars' figures only in having the ultimate joint of peduncle of 

 2nd antenna shorter than penultimate and the side-plates 1-3 obtuse 

 (as in Sars' figure of E. tuberculata, I.e. pi. 129, fig. 2). 



Length ; 18 mm. 



Colour: In spirit, pale pinkish. 



Locality: Buffalo Eiver NW. | W., distant 19 miles (off East 

 London). 300 fathoms. . s.s. " Pieter Faure." 16/4/01. (S.A.M. 

 No. A218.) 



Geogr. Distribution : Norway, 50-150 fathoms (Sars) ; Great 



