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FAMILY IDOTEIDAE. 



For synonymy see Stebbing, S. Afr. Crust, pt. 1, p. 51, 1900, and 

 pt. 2, p. 55, 1902. 



GEN. IDOTEA, J. C. Fabricius. 



1798. Idotea, Fabricius, Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 302. 

 1881. ,, Miers, Journ. L. S. Lond. vol. 16, p. 19. (Synonymy.) 

 1910. Stebbing, Gen. Cat S. Afr. Crust. Ann. S.A. Mus. 

 vol. vi. pt. 4, p. 432. 



IDOTEA METALLICA, Bosc. 



1802. Idotea metallica, Bosc. Hist. Nat. Crust, vol. 2, p. 179, pi. 15, 



fig. 6. 

 1840. ,, rugosa, M. Edw. Hist. Nat. Crust, vol. 3, p. 131. 



1846. ,, robusta, Kroyer, Naturh. Tidsskr. (2) vol. 2, p. 108. 



1847. ,, compacta, White, List. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 95. 



1853. argentea, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp. vol. 14, p. 698, pi. 46, 



fig. 1. 

 1881. ,, metallica, Miers, Journ. L. S. Lond. vol. 16, p. 35. 



(Further synonymy.) 

 1905. Idothca metallica, Eichardson, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 54, 



p. 362, figs. 392, 393. 

 (Omitted from the Gen. Cat. S. Afr. Crust. 1910.) 



A cosmopolitan species. The Paris Museum possesses a series 

 from the Cape of Good Hope (teste Miers). 



Cape Point NE. 28 miles. Surface. Flesh Point W. by N. f N. 

 distant 4J miles. Surface. s.s. " Pieter Faure." 24/6/03 and 

 30/12/03. 



One specimen cast on beach at Chinde, mouth of the Zambezi. 

 29/10/12. (Coll. K.H.B.) 



ENGIDOTEA, n. g. 



Side-plates distinct in all peraeon segments except the first, and 

 as long as their respective segments. Pleon consisting of two seg- 

 ments with two pairs of lateral sutures. Second antennae with 

 multiarticulate flagellum. Maxillipeds 7- jointed. Inner plate of 

 first maxilla with two plumose setae. Uropods with only one 

 branch. 



Eesembles Glyptidotea in the character of the side-plates, and 



