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1904. Corallanidae, id. in Gardiner's Fauna, Maid. Laccad. Archip. 



vol. 2, pt. 3, p. 703. 



1905. ,, id. in Herdman's Ceylon Pearl Fish. Suppl. Eep. 



23, p. 19. 



GEN. COEALLANA, Dana. 



1853. Corallana, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. 13, pp. 748, 773. 

 1879. ,, Schioedte and Meinert. Naturh. Tidsskr. ser. 3, 



vol. 12, p. 286. 

 1904. ,, Stebbing, I.e. p. 704. 



CORALLANA AFBICANA, n. sp. 

 (Plate XXX. D.) 



Body with a few scattered hairs, chiefly on the lateral portions. 

 Head without sculpturing, eyes large, oval, black. Epimera visible 

 in dorsal view, postero-lateral angles acute, but not sharply pro- 

 duced or spinose. Pleon of 5 segments plus telson, 5th segment 

 with a low, inconspicuous median tubercle (in young specimens 

 quite obsolete), telson as long as basal width, lateral margins slightly 

 sinuous, apex blunt, with 6 stout spines, interspersed with plumose 

 setae, which extend up the lateral margins. 



First antenna scarcely reaching to end of peduncle of second 

 antenna, basal joint stout, flagellum 7-jointed. 



Second antenna reaching to posterior margin of 3rd peraeon seg- 

 ment, peduncle 5-jointed, 2nd and 3rd joints short, 4th and 5th 

 joints subequal or 4th slightly longer than 5th, flagellum 1-J- times 

 length of peduncle, 16-19-jointed. 



Upper lip nearly thrice as broad as long, emarginate. 



Lower lip, lobes twice as long as broad, apically rounded, with a 

 small pointed accessory lobe near the end. 



Mandibles elongate, apex not greatly elongate, bifid in the left, 

 entire in the right, palp 3-jointed, 2nd joint longest, with setae on 

 outer apex, 3rd joint ovate, with long setae. 



First maxilla sickle-shaped, unguis well developed and strongly 

 chitinized. 



Second maxilla apparently absent, as no trace of it could be 

 found. 



Maxilliped, 2nd joint a little longer than 3rd-7th joints together, 

 3rd and 4th joints small, 5th joint circular, as long as 3rd and 4th 

 together and almost equally wide, with 1 long spine and 2 small 



