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broader than in L. ^j/v/s, palm at base not very angular, straight, 

 with a low denticulate process extending from hinge almost 4 along 

 the palm, and a pointed tooth, furnished with plumose setae, anterior 

 margin with 5 groups of spines, finger matching palm, nearly straight. 

 In $ similar but smaller, 6th joint ovate, hind margin half length of 

 palm and distinctly separated by a very small process and a spine, 

 palm with a few simple setae only, finger matching palm, its inner 

 margin faintly crenulate. 



In other respects resembling L. purus. 



Length : 3 mm. 



Colour : Pale yellowish grey, a faint medio-dorsal grey stripe, eyes 

 pale red. 



Locality : Durban Bay. July, 1915. (H. W. Bell-Marley.) <$ 

 and ovigerous ? ? . (S.A.M. No. A3841.) 



This species was received too late for figuring, but I hope to give a 

 figure of it on a future occasion. 



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GEN. PODOCERUS Leach. 



1813/14. Podocerus Leach, Edinb. Encycl. vol. 7, p. 433. 



1852. Platopliium Dana, Anier. J. Sci. ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 309. 



1853. Podocerus id. U.S. Expl. Exp. vol. 13, pt. 2, pp. 831, 837. 

 1885. DexiocereUa- Haswell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. 10, p. 107. 

 1888. Podocerus Stebbing, Challeng. Rep. vol. 29, p. 1184. 



1893. (part) Delia Vallei P. u. PI. Neapel. vol. 20, p. 327. 



1894. G. 0. Sars, Crust, Norw. vol. 1, p. 629. 

 1899. Stebbing, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 7, vol. 3, p. 237. 

 1904. Platophiuni Walker in Herdman's Ceylon Pearl Fish. Suppl. 



Rep. 17, p. 295. 



1906. Podocerus Stebbiug, Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 700, 741. 

 1908. Chevreux, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 20. p. 521. 



1910. Stebbing, Sci. Res. "Thetis," pt, 12, p. 622. 



PODOCERUS CRISTATUS (G. M. Thomson). 



1879. Cyrtophium cristatum G. M. Thomson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



ser. 5, vol. 4, p. 331, pi. 16, figs. 

 9-15. 



1880. ,, den.tatum Haswell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. 4, 



p. 342, pi. 22, fig. 5. 



1881. n-istdtum G. M. Thomson, Tr. N. Zeal. lust, vol. 13, 



p. 219, pi. 8, fig. 8. 



