190 Annals of the South African Museum. 



1864. Melita exilii Fr. Miiller, Fiir Darwin, p. 6, fig. 



1879. australis Haswell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. 4, p. 264, 



pi. 9, figs. 6, 7. 

 1890. cotesi Giles, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 59, p. 64, pi. 2, 



fig. 1. 

 1904. anisochir Walker iu Herdmau's Ceylon Pearl Fish. Suppl. 



Eep. 17, p. 270, pi. 4, fig. 28. 

 1906. fresnelii Stebbiug, I.e. p. 423 (synonymy and references). 



1909. Walker, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. vol. 12, pt, 4, 



p. 334. 



1910. Stebbiug, I.e. p. 596. 

 1910. Kunkel, I.e. p. 31, fig. 11. 



1912. Pearse, Proc. U.S. Nat, Mus. vol. 43 [1913], 



p. 371. 



In these specimens the dorsal teeth on the pleon vary slightly from 

 Stebbing's description in Das Tierreich. The median tooth on all the 

 segments is very minute or even absent, on segments 1 and 2 there are 

 3 subdorsal teeth on either side, on segment 3 two teeth, of which the 

 lower one is the larger and apically bifid, on either side, on segment 4 

 only 2 large teeth, on segment 5 two small ones. 



The eye tends to become oval in the adult. 



Twelve of the <$ $ are " left handed " and eight " right handed." 



Length : 8 mm. 



Colour: Pale straw coloured, speckled with brown, a small dark 

 brown median dorsal spot on peraeon segments 2-7 and pleon segment 

 1, side-plates and pleura also speckled and spotted with dark brown, 

 antennae, peraeopods and uropods spotted and banded with orange, 

 large hand of ^ blotched with orange and brown, proximal part of 

 finger orange, apex of finger and thumb white, eyes brown. 



Locality: Morewood Cove NW. by N. f N., distant 3 miles (Natal). 

 27 fathoms. 20 <$ $ 15 ? ? , some ovigerous, and 7 juv. ; Umhloti 

 River mouth NNW., distant 1 mile (Natal). 27 fathoms. 1 ? . 

 s.s. "Pieter Faure." 19/12/00 and 21/12/00. Durban, July 1915. 

 (H. W. Bell-Marley). 4 33, 5 ? ?,2 juv. (S.A.M. Nos/A193, 

 A3817, and A3845.) 



Geogr. Distribution : Egypt (Audouiu) ; Singapore, 10 feet (Dana) ; 

 Rio Janeiro, shore (Dana) ; Port Jackson (Haswell) ; Andaman Isles 

 (Giles) ; Ceylon (Walker) ; Seychelles, 22-36 fathoms (Walker) ; 

 Wasin, B.E.A., 10 fathoms (Waiker) ; Suakim, 5 fathoms (Walker) ; 

 New South Wales, 52 fathoms (Stebbiug) ; Bermuda, 0-12 feet 

 (Kunkel) ; Gulf of Mexico, 2-30 fathoms (Pearse). 



