Contributions to the Crustacean Fauna of South Africa. 347a 



of a suture about f from base, male stylet arising half-way along 

 inner margin, slender, nearly straight, apex reaching to end of ramus, 

 incurved. 



Uropods, inner ramus extending a little beyond telsonic apex, 

 2nd joint longer than broad, apex bluntly acute, margins not 

 crenulate, outer margin and base of inner setose ; outer ramus ex- 

 tending a little beyond apex of 1st joint of inner ramus, as broad as 

 long, apically indented, margins neither crenulate nor densely 

 setose, the two rami arching over telson and meeting in the middle 

 line. 



Lemjth : $ 26 mm., ovigerous J 19 mm.; breadth: $ 2 mm., 

 5 l - 5 mm. 



Colour : In spirit, uniform pinkish. 



Locality: 33 52' S. 25 50' E. (Algoa Bay). 25 fathoms. 

 8/12/98. 1 ; 33 3' S. 27 57' E. (off East London). 32 fathoms. 

 28/12/98. 2 3 $ , 4 ? ? ; Umhlangakulu River mouth NW. by W., 

 distant 7 miles. 50 fathoms. 14/3/01. 1 $ , 1 ovigerous $ , and 

 5 immature ; Cove Rock N. f E., distant 5 miles. 43 fathoms. 

 2/8/01 . 2 <? <? , 1 ? , and 3 immature ; Keiskamma Point NE. by 

 E., distant 5 miles. 33 fathoms. 27/8/01. 1 ? . s.s. " Pieter 

 Faure." (S.A.M. Nos. A64, A60, A61, A57, and A62 respectively.) 



Named after the Cape Government trawler which collected the 

 specimens. 



The only other species of the genus are : L. tenuis (G. O. Sars), 

 1872 ( = the Paranthura tenuis of Norman & Stebbing), L. glacialis, 

 Hodgson, 1910, and L. tnmcata, Richardson, 1911. 



GEN. PARANTHURA, Bate & Westwood. 



1866. Paranthura, Bate & Westwood, Brit. Sessile-eyed Crust. 



vol. 2, p. 163. 

 1870. ,, Dohrn, Unters. tiber Bau u. Entwick. d. Arthrop. 



p. 91. 

 1886. Norman & Stebbing, Tr. Zool. Soc. Lond. 



vol. 12, pp. 122, 129. 



1886. ,, Beddard, Chall. Rep. vol. 17, p. 143. 



1893. Stebbing, Hist. Crust, p. 332. 



1900. id. in Willey's Zool. Res. v. p. 622. 



1901. Whitelegge, Sci. Res. " Thetis," p. 216. 



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



pp. 63, 75. 

 1910. ,, id. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. 37, p. 77. 



