338ft Annals of the South African Museum. 



Fourth to seventh peraeopods similar to 2nd and 3rd, but 5th joint 

 not underriding 6th, apex of 5th and 6th each with 2 spines, 7th not 

 appreciably shorter or more slender than preceding ones. 



First pleopod very large, 6 mm. long, opercular, covering the other 

 pleopods, margins densely fringed with plumose setae. 



The other pleopods small, 3 mm. long, lanceolate. 



Uropods, inner ramus large, nearly as long as telson, increasing in 

 width distally, 2nd joint almost as long as 1st, apex obliquely trun- 

 cate, with short plumose setae, outer ramus reaching to outer distal 

 angle of 2nd joint of inner ramus, lanceolate, twice as long as broad, 

 inner margin straight, outer convex and rather angular, with plumose 

 setae. 



Length : 22 mm. ; breadth : 1st peraeon segment 1-25 mm., 

 7th peraeon segment 2 mm. 



Colour : Whitish with In-own mottling on head and peraeon seg- 

 ments, a well-marked dark spot behind each of the pits on 4th-6th 

 segments. 



Locality : Sea Point near Cape Town. 12/1/14. (K.H.B.) 1 ? . 

 (S.A.M. No. A2667.) 



Gen. ANTHELUKA, Norman & Stebbing. 



1886. AntJicliu-a, Norman & Stebbing, Tr. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol. 12, 



pp. 121, 126. 



1893. ,, Stebbing, Hist. Crust, p. 331. 



1905. Eichardson, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 54, p. 68. 



ANTHELURA HEMIPES, n. sp. 

 (Plate XXVIII. B.) 



Body long and very narrow, smooth, glabrous. Head longer than 

 broad, f length of 1st peraeon segment, anterior margin rather 

 deeply excavated on either side of the median projection, which 

 scarcely reaches to the level of the antero-lateral angles, eyes 

 absent. 



Peraeon keeled ventrally, segments 1-3 and 7 subequal, segments 

 4 and 5 subequal and longer than preceding segments, segment 6 

 intermediate in length, segments 6 and 7 with a broad shallow 

 impression on the posterior part. 



Pleon segments 1-6 nearly as long as peraeon segment 7, fused, 

 the sutures visible only at the sides, 5th segment a little longer than 

 the others, telson thick and convex above, distal third narrowing 



