Crustacean Fauna of South Africa. 191 



MELITA INAEQUISTYLIS (Dana). 



1852. Ampliitoe (Melita) inaequistylis and tenuicornis Dana, Proc. 



Amer. Ac. vol. 2, pp. 214 paid 215. 

 1853 and 1855. Melita tenuicornis id. U.S. Expl. Exp. vol. 13, 2, p. 963, 



pi. 66, figs. ba-m. 

 1862.il/oera Bate, Cat. Arnphip. Brit, Mus. p. 195, 



pi. 35, fig. 6. 

 1876. Paramoera Miers, Cat. Crust, 1ST. Zeal. p. 127, 



pi. 3, fig. 8 ( 2 ). 

 1893. Melita palmata (part) Delia Yalle, F. u. Fl. Neapel. vol. 20, 



p. 714. 

 1904. Maera tenuicornis Walker in Herdmau's Ceylon Pearl Fish. 



Suppl. Rep. 17, p. 273, pi. 5, fig. 33. 

 1904. Melita zeylanica Stebbing, Spolia Zeylanica, vol. 2, pt. 5, p. 22, 



pi. 5. 



1906. ,, inaequistylis id. Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 429, 732. 

 1906. tenuicornis Chiltou, Tr. N.Z. Inst, vol. 38, p. 271. 

 1909. ,, inaequistylis id. Subant, Is. N. Zeal. p. 630. 

 1911. id. Tr. N.Z. Inst. vol. 43, p. 564. 



1914. Stebbing, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1914, p. 366. 



Side-plate 5 in 2 not booked. 



Pleon segment 4 in $ with 1 medio-dorsal acute tooth on hind 

 margin, segment 5 with 2 subdorsal teeth on either side (no medio- 

 dorsal tooth) ; 2 sometimes without a tooth on segment 4 and with 

 only 1 subdorsal tooth on either side on segment 5. Postero-inferior 

 angle and posterior and inferior margins of 3rd pleon segment as 

 figured by Walker. 



Telsou, inner margin slightly concave, apices acute, outer margin 

 witli 2 subapical spines, inner margin with 3 (2 large, 1 small) sub- 

 apical spines, 1 smaller one a little beyond middle of inner margin. 



First antenna, 2nd joint longer than 1st, 3rd \ 2nd, flagellum a 

 little longer than peduncle, ca. 40-joiuted, accessory flagellum 5- 

 jointed. 



Second antenna, gland-cone acute, reaching half way along 3rd, 

 ultimate and penultimate joints subequal, flagellum scarcely equal to 

 last V peduncular joints together, ca. 14-jointed. 



Mandibular palp, 1st joint at least 2nd, 2nd and 3rd subequal. 



Maxilliped, 3rd joint of palp expanded, obovate. 



First gnathopod in $ as in Delia Valle's figure of that of M. 

 (Montagu) ; in 2 6th joint without the process on front 



