272 Annals of the South African Museum. 



North Australia (Stebbiug) ; Port Jackson (Chilton) ; Ceylon 

 (Walker) ; New South Wales, 41-52 fathoms (Stebbing). 



GEN. COEOPHIUM Latr. 



1806. Corophium Lati-eille, Gen. Crust. Ins. vol. 1, p. 58. 

 1813-14. Coroplirium Leach, Edinb. Encycl. vol. 7, p. 432. 

 1830. Corophia M. Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat, vol. 20, p. 384. 

 1851. Audouinia (noni. nud.) Costa in Hope. Cat. Crost. Ital. p. 24. 

 1888. Corophium Stebbing, Challeng. Eep. vol. 29, p. 1670. 



1893. Delia Valle, F. u. Fl. Neapel. vol. 20, p. 362. 



1894. G-. 0. Sars, Crust. Norw. vol. 1, p. 612. 

 1904. Stebbing, Spolia Zeyl. vol. 2, pt. 5, p. 25. 

 1906. id. Das Tierreich, 2!, pp. 685, 740. 



1908. Bradley, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool. vol. 4, no. 4, 



p. 229. (Key to the species.) 

 1908. Chevreux, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 33, p. 70. 



1911. Vanhoeffen, SB. Gesell. Naturf. BerL 1911, 



p. 400. 



1912. Wundsch. Zool. Auz. vol. 39, p. 732. 



This genus has a wide distribution, but hitherto has not been 

 recorded from South Africa. 



COROPHIUM ACHERUSICUM Costa. 



1851. Audouinia aclierusica Costa in Hope. Cat. Crost. Ital. (uoni. 



nucl.). 



1857. Corophium acherusicum id. Mem. Ace. Ital. vol. 1, p. 232. 

 1866. Heller, Denkschr. K.Ak. Wiss. Wien. 



vol. 26, p. 51, pi. 4, fig. 14. 

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



p. 364, pi. 1, fig. 11, pi. 8, figs. 17, 



18, 20-41. 

 1900. Chevreux, Re's. Sci. Monaco, vol. 16, 



p. 109. 



1906. Stebbing, Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 692, 



740. 







Anterior margin of head produced into a small triangular rostrum, 

 scarcely extending beyond the level of the antero-lateral angles, 

 which are subacute. Side-plate 1 apically acute, with 3 setae. Pleon 

 segments 4-6 fused. 



