230 Anna?* of the South African. Museum. 



fouud. The ground-colour is slaty, slaty-brown, purplish, claret, 

 sienna, brownish-green or green, either uniform or speckled and 

 irrorated. A row of small whitish spots just above the junctions of 

 the epimera and segments and frequently other smaller whitish spots, 

 chiefly on the anterior epimera. Sometimes a fawn or yellowish medio- 

 dorsal stripe runs from the head to the end of the pleon, or there is 

 one light irregular patch on the 2nd peraeon segment and another on 

 the 5th. In other specimens the ground-colour is whitish, becoming 

 yellowish dorsally, each peraeon segment (with its side-plate) and each 

 pleon segment with a broad dark brownish- black transverse baud. 

 Eyes dark bi'ownish-black. The antennae and posterior limbs of the 

 same colour as the ground-colour, the gnathopods pale. 



It reaches a length of 13 mm. in the <$ and 12 mm. in the $ . 



The lobes on the 2nd and 3rd joints of the 1st and 2nd guathopods 

 (of both sexes) are frequently more strongly developed than in Chilton's 

 figures. 



Besides Table Bay, other localities are : Buft'el's Bay and Kalk Bay 

 on the East side of the Cape Peninsula. 



The " Scotia " obtained it at Saldanha Bay in 25 fathoms. 



HYALE GRANDICORNIS (Kroyer). 



1845. Orchestia grandicornis Koyer, Naturh. Tidsskr. ser. 2, vol. 1, 



p. 292, pi. 1, figs. 2a-n. 



1849. Nicaea lucasii Nicolet in Gray's Hist. Chile, vol. 3, p. 238. 

 1852. Allorcliest.es verticillata -j- i>eruviana Dana, Proc. Amer. Ac. 



vol. 2, pp. 205, 206. 

 1862. ,, verticillatus Bate, Cat. Auiph. Brit. Mus. p. 43, 



pi. 7, fig. 1. 

 1879. Nicaea novaezealandiae Thomson, Tr. N.Z. Inst. vol. 11, p. 235, 



pi. K)B, figs. !-/. 

 1893. Hyale prevostii (part) Delia Valle, P. u. El. Neapel. vol. 20, 



pp. 519, 520. 

 1906. ,, grandicornis + novaezealandiae Stebbing, Das Tierreich, 



21, pp. 566, 567. 



1909. novaezealandiae Chilton, Subant. Is. N". Zeal. p. 643. 

 1912. grandicornis id. Tr. Boy. Soc. Edmb. vol. 48, pt. 2, 



p. 508. ' 



Stebbing and Chiltou have 'mentioned the nearness of novae- 

 zealandiae to grandicornis. A comparison of the South African form 

 leaves no other course but to unite them. None of the characters 



