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PODOCERUS SYNAPTOCHIR (Walker). 



1904. Platophium synaptochir Walker in Herdman's Ceylou Pearl 



Fish. Suppl. Eep. 17, p. 296, pi. 8, 

 fig. 52. 



1906. Podocerus Stebbing, Das Tierreich, 21, p. 741. 



1909. Walker, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lend, vol. 12, 



pi. 4, p. 243. 



These specimens agree exactly with Walker's description and figures 

 except that the palni of the 2nd gnathopod in the male has two little 

 denticles near the finger-hinge. These are not mentioned by Walker, 

 but are easily overlooked owing to the deuseiiess of the fringes of 

 plumose setae. The finger of the 1st gnathopod in both sexes is 

 serrate on the inner margin and the palm in the male is minutely 

 crenulate. 



Posterior margins of peraeon and pleon segments sparsely setose, 

 in the $ the humps on the 7th peraeou and lst-3rd pleou segments 

 each bear a little median tuft of setae. Antero-lateral angles of 

 peraeon segment 1, as well as those of the side-plate, acutely produced 

 forwards. 



Eves on the autero lateral angles of the head. 



Length : <$ 6mrn., ? 3 mm. 



Colour : Light brown, speckled with darker, often a dark spot on 

 the 3rd and 4th side-plates and in the $ a medio-dorsal spot on 

 6th peraeou segment, ? frequently with a pale oval dorsal patch 

 extending over 3rd-6th peraeon segments, a dark transverse band 

 between the eyes, which are bright red, sometimes the whole head dark. 



Locality : Durban Bay. March and July, 1915. (H. W. Bell- 

 Marley.) <$ <$ and ovigerous ? ? . (S.A.M. Nos. A3375 and 

 A3842.) 



Geogr. Distribution: Ceylon (Walker) ; Zanzibar and Suez (Walker). 



TRIBE CYAMIDEA. 

 FAMILY CAPKELLIDAE. 



1847. Caprellidae White, List Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 91. 

 1910. Stebbing, Gen. Cat. S.A. Crust, p. 464. 



1912. Mayer in Michaelsen, Fauna Siidwest Austral. 



vol. 4, pt. 1, p. 1. 



