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thau the peduncle : both ratiii have several apical setae but no marginal 

 spines. 



Length : 7 mm., ? 7'5 mm. 



Colour: Whitish, speckled Jorsally with grey in the following 

 manner : anterior half of the segments with 2 submedian spots, 

 posterior half with 1 median spot ; these spots are square so that they 

 form a chequered pattern ; a roundish medio-dorsal dark brown spot 

 on peraeou segments 6 and 7 and pleon segments 1-3, those on the 

 pleon segments largest and sometimes alone present ; two specimens 

 are white with transverse brown-grey bands, in the one on head, 

 peraeon segment 6 and pleon segment 1, in the other on head, peraeon 

 segments and pleou segment 1. 



Locality; False Bay (Seal Island, SSE., distant 2 miles). 10 

 fathoms. 30/10/02. 1 ovigerous ? . s.s. " Pieter Faure," Buffel's 

 Bay. 28/9/13. <$, ??. (K.H.B.) ; Table Bay (Sea Point, near 

 Cape Town). 1913 /14.^ <?, ovigerous ? ?. (K.H.B.) ; Durban. July, 

 1915. 1 cJ. (H. W. Bell-Marley.) (S.A.M. Nos. A2871, A2538, 

 A2896, A3850, etc.) 



Geogr. Distribution : N. Atlantic (Kroyer, Sars, etc.) ; Algeria 

 (Chevreux); Azores (Chevreux) ; S. America (Nicolet) ; Australia 

 (Haswell) ; New Zealand (Thomson) ; Kerguelen Is. (Stebbing) ; 

 G-ambier Archipelago (Chevreux) ; Auckland Is. (Chilton) ; Kerniadec 

 Is. (Chilton). 



A smaller form 4-5 mm. (J c? and ovigeous ? ? ) is found Avith the 

 other form at Sea Point and is distinguished by having a large square 

 dark grey spot on 1st and 2nd pleou segments, instead of the smaller 

 roundish spots. The inner ramus of the 3rd uropod has only 1 or 2 

 setae. 



GEN. LEMBOS Bate. 



1857. Lembos (part) Bate, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. 19, 



p. 142. 

 1906. Stebbing, Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 594-737. 



1909. Walker, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. 12, pt, 4, p. 338. 



1910. Stebbiug, Gen. Cat. S.A. Crust, p. 460. 



1911. Chevreux, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 23, p. 243. 



LEMBOS HYPACANTHUS u. sp. 

 (Plate XXVIII. Figs. 5-6.) 



Body not compressed. Lateral lobes of head not strongly produced, 

 subacute. Eyes oval. Peraeou segments 3-7 in <$ each with a strong 



