222 Annals of the South African Museum. 



nearly straight, finger and unguis not reaching apex of lobe (cf. T. 

 novae-hollandifte Stebb.), numerous scattered spines on the joints; in 

 $ 6th joint simple, shorter than 5th, both spinose, but without any 

 specially large spines. 



Second gnathopod in $ , 2nd joint very similar to that of T. australis 

 but oval, greatest width just before the middle, whence tapering to 

 hinge, palm and hind margin forming an almost even curve without 

 defining tooth or process, palm convex, spinose, finger strongly curved, 

 a little longer than palm and overlapping the margin at the end ; in $ 

 2nd joint expanded 011 front margin, twice as long as wide, 4th not lobed, 

 5th not very strongly lobed, 6th a little shorter than 5th, apical 

 projection bluntly rounded. 



Second peraeopod, 7th joint with inner margin sinuous, not 

 constricted. 



Third to fifth peraeopods, 2nd joint moderately expanded, its hind 

 margin in 3rd and 4th peraeopods with minute setuliferous serrations, 

 in 5th regularly crenulate and setulose. 



First uropod, outer ramus with apical spines only. 



Length: $ 12'5 mm., ? 10 mm. 



Colour : Whitish, eyes dark brown. 



Locality : West and East coasts of the Cape Peninsula. (Dr. W. P. 

 Purcell and E. M. Lightfoot.) <$ and ? ? . (S.A.M. Nos. 1260-2.) 



This species possesses a 1st gnathopod in <$ like that of T. novae- 

 hollandie Stebb. together with a 2nd gnathopod similar to that of 

 T. brito Stebb. It is distinguished from T. australis by the greater 

 proximity of the eyes, the 2nd side-plate, the 2nd gnathopod in $ and 

 the finger of 2nd peraeopod. The females of this species and australis 

 can be distinguished by the 2nd side-plate, the 2nd joint of 2nd 

 gnathopod and absence of large spines on 5th and 6th joints of 1st 

 gnathopod. 



The name is compounded of ay^t near, and fS&r an appearance. 



GEN. TALITEIATOE Methuen. 

 1913. Talitriator Methuen, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1913, pt. 1, p. 109. 



In his generic diagnosis Methuen says : " Like Talitrus except for the 

 fifth side-plate. . . ." This refers presumably to the difference in the 

 size of the lobes, the anterior lobe being much bigger than the posterior 

 in Talitriator, but only a little bigger in Talitrus (cf. Sars' figure of 

 T. locusta in Crust. Norw. vol. 1, pi. 9). 



Now Sayce (Proc, Eoy. Soc. Viet. vol. 22, j.t. 1, p. 29, pis. 11, 12, 

 1909) has given detailed descriptions and figures of the two Australian 



