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The uropods have a tooth at the apex of the peduncle. 

 Length : 3-5 mm. ; breadth : 0'75 mm. 

 Colour : Whitish. 



Locality : St. James, False Bay. 29/4/12. (Coll. K.H.B.) 1 $ . 

 (S.A.M. No. A2262). 



Distribution : Chile, New Zealand, and Ceylon. 



FAMILY MUNNOPSIDAE. 



1861. Munnopsidae, M. Sars, Chr. Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1860, p. 84. 



1893. ,, Stebbing, Hist. Crust, p. 383. 



1897. ,, G. 0. Sars. Crust. Norw. vol. 2, p. 132. 



1905. Richardson, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 54, p. 485. 



1905. Parasellidae (part), Hansen, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1904, ii. 2, 



p. 315. 

 1912. Munnopsidae, Richardson, Bull. Inst. ocean. Monaco. No. 227, 



p. 1. 



GEN.: MUNNOPSURUS, Richardson. 

 1912. Munnopsurus, Richardson, I.e. p. 1. 



MUNNOPSURUS MIMUS, n. sp. 

 (Plate XXI. B.) 



Body smooth, head broader than long, widest in front, more 

 strongly calcined than any other part, anterior margin excavate. 



Peraeon, first segment as wide as head, lateral portions produced 

 forwards, scabrous, second, third and fourth segments wider than 

 head, third and fourth rather wider than second, antero-lateral angles 

 scabrous and bearing 1 small spine each, fifth, sixth and seventh 

 segments separated from anterior segments by a marked gap and not 

 separated from one another as are the latter, with shallow median 

 groove but no tubercles, lateral portions quadrate. 



Side-plates 1-4 bilobed, scabrous, 5-7 entire, not so angular as in 

 I\L arcticns, scabrous but less so than the 4 anterior ones. 



Pleon as long as broad, evenly rounded without median lobe. 



First antenna, 1st joint very stout, 2nd joint acutely produced 

 internally, with 1 strong and 2 smaller spines, 3rd joint equal to 

 2nd with one small spine on outer apical angle, 4th joint one-quarter 

 as long, flagellum in $ 4 times, in J \\ times as long as peduncle, 

 with long setae on lower edge. 



Second antenna, 1st joint small and developed chiefly on outside, 



