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duced beyond base of finger, defining tooth short, and palm not deeply 

 excavate; in $ limb resembles 1st gnatliopod of $, finger strongly 

 serrate. 



Second joint of 1st and 2nd peraeopods as in A. keryueleniStebl). 



Third uropod, peduncle with 5-6 spines on upper apex, inner ramus 

 a little larger than outer. 



These specimens show a very strong likeness to A. rubricata (Mont.) 

 and also to A. kergueleni Stebb. .The latter however has numerous 

 setae on the inner plate of 1st maxilla and only 2 spines on apex of 

 peduncle of 3rd uropod. Until further and better material of the 

 South African form comes to hand, it is not advisable to assign them 

 to a particular species. It is possible that kergueleni may be only a 

 southern form of rubricata, and that transitional forms may later be 

 discovered. 



G-EN, G-RUBIA Czerii. 



1868. Grubia Czerniavski, Syezda Buss. Est. Syezda 1. Zool. p. 103. 

 1888. Stebbing, Challeng. Rep. vol. 29, p. 377. 

 1893. Delia Valle, F. u. Fl. Neapel, vol. 20, p. 464. 



1900. Chevreux, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 25, no. 5/6, p. 95. 



1901. id. Mc'm. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 14, p. 422. 



1903. Walker & Scott in Forbes. Nat, Hist. Sokotra, p. 226. 



1905. Holmes, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. vol. 24, p. 510. 



1906. Stebbing, Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 644, 738. 



1907. Chevreux, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, 1907, no. 6, 



p. 417. 

 1910. Kunkel, Tr. Conn. Ac. Sci. vol. 16, p. 97. 



The International Catalogue No. 7 refers to two new species (Odusi 

 kelleri and Grubia. esa) from Vladivostok described by von der 

 Briiggen in " Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. ser. 6, 1, 1907 (660)." This 

 reference must have been wrongly quoted as there is no paper on 

 Amphipods by this author in the volume for 1907. In no. 2 of this 

 volume, p. 44, however, occurs a notice of v. d. Briiggeu's paper which 

 appears to have been published in the following year in Ann. Mus. 

 Zool. St. Petersb. 1907, xii, 4, p. 478. This reference is correctly 

 quoted in the International Catalogue No. 8, where the new species 

 are given as Oclius kelleri and Ampliithoe eoa (v. d. Briiggeu writes the 

 latter, Amphitoe). 



I therefore regard Grubia esa as a synonym, or rather a nomen 

 nud urn, of Ampltitoe eoa and non-existent as far as the genus Grubia is 

 concerned. 



