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3rd pleou segment (I have not seen Bonnier's figures) . It is, how- 

 ever, more feebly cariuate and the apices of the telson are not 

 dehiscent, The 2nd joint of the 5th peraeopod is very similar to that 

 of R.prozima Chevreux. The perfectly entire postero-lateral margin 

 of the 3rd pleou segment is quite exceptional in the genus, although 

 R. graciUs has " only 3 scarcely visible denticles " ; to this feature 

 the specific name refers. 



FAMILY PONTOGEXEIIDAE. 



1906. Pontogeneiidae Stebbing, Das Terreich, 21, pp. 356, 729. 



1907. Chevreux, Exp. Autarct. Franc, p. 74. 

 1910. Stebbiug, Gen. Cat, S. Afr. Crust, p. 455. 



GEN. PAEAMOEEA Miers. 



1875. Paramoera (part) Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist. ser. 4, vol. 16, 



p. 75. 



1888. Atijloides (part) Stebbiug, Challeug. Eep. vol. 29, p. 913. 

 1906. Paramoera id. I.e. p. 363. 



PARAMOERA CAPENSIS (Dana). 



1853 and 55. IpJiimedia capensis Daua, U.S. Expl. Exp. vol. 13, 2, 



p. 931, pi. 63, figs. 5a-g, 

 1862. Atylus capensis Bate, Cat. Amphip. Brit, Mus. p. 137, pi. 26, 



fig. 4. 



1888. Atyloides assimilis Stebbiug, I.e. p. 918, pi. 77. 

 1888. Atylopsis magellamca id. ibid. p. 925, pi. 79. 

 1906. Pontogeneia ,, Stebbing, I.e. p. 360. 

 1906. ,, capensis id. ibid. p. 361 (" possibly identical with 



P. mageUanica"}. 

 1909. Atyloides magellanica Chiltou, Subantarct. Is. N. Zeal. vol. 2, 



p. 627 (references). 

 1912. id. Tr. Roy. Soc. Ediub. vol. 48, pt. 2, 



p. 496, pi. 1, fig. 18. 

 1914. ,, magellanicus Stebbing, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1914, 



p. 365. 



The reasons for the above synonymy are as follows : 

 In 1912 Chilton (I.e. p. 498) described a local variety of Paramoera 

 austrina (Bate) from Saldanha Bay, South Africa, whose chief pecu- 

 liarity is the absence of setae and the greater number of apical 



