340ft Annals of the South African Museum. 



inner margin convex with 1 apical spine, 6th f length of 3rd, only 

 half as long again as broad, parallelogram-shaped, palm straight with 

 1 apical spine, 7th joint as long as palm, unguis short and stout, 

 inner margins of 3rd-6th joints with long setae. 



Fourth to sixth peraeopods more slender than the 2nd and 3rd 

 peraeopods, 2nd and 3rd joints subequal, 4th and 5th subequal, 

 f length of 3rd, half as long again as broad, 5th with a large spine 

 at base and another at apex, each spine bearing a cilium near its 

 end, 6th joint nearly as long as 5th, but only half as wide, apex with 

 1 stout and several smaller, serrulate spines, 7th joint half the 

 length of 6th, slender, unguis small, with a tuft of setae in place of 

 the secondary unguis, inner margins of 3rd-6th joints with long 

 setae. 



Seventh peraeopod longer and more slender than the preceding 

 peraeopods, 2nd joint a little longer than 3rd, 4th and 5th subequal, 

 twice as long as broad, 6th as long as 5th, slender, 7th half length 

 of 6th. 



First and second pleopods with 4 hooked spines on inner apex of 

 peduncle, 1st pleopod opercular, outer ramus ovate, inner margin 

 straight, inner ramus f length and i width of outer; 2nd pleopod ( $ ) 

 narrower, rami subequal, obscurely 2-jointed. 



Uropods, inner ramus reaching to end of telson, both joints sub- 

 equal, longer than broad, margins entire, inner apical margin of 1st 

 joint setose, apex of 2nd joint with very long setae chiefly on outer 

 distal margin ; outer ramus transversely ovate, twice as broad as 

 long, margins entire, setose. 



Length : 30 mm. ; breadth : 2 mm. 



Colour: In spirit, dull grey-brown. 



Locality : Lion's Head SE. | E., distant 42 miles (off Cape 

 Peninsula). 156 fathoms. 13/3/00. 1 nonovigerous $ . s.s. " Pieter 

 Faure." (S.A.M. No. A58.) 



GEN. APANTHURA, Stebbing. 



1900. Apanthura, Sbebbing in Willey's Zool. Ees. vol. 5. p. 621. 

 1910. id. Tr. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. vol. 14, pt. 1, 



p. 93. 



APANTHURA AFKICANA, n. sp. 



(Plate XXVIII. C.) 



Body very narrow in proportion to length. Head half length of 

 1st peraeon segment, longer than broad, eyes absent. 



