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setae on inner apex, 6th joint slender, narrower than any of the 

 preceding, 7th joint minute with apical tuft of setae. 



First peraeopod, 3rd and 4th joints subequal, 4th with 5 blunt 

 tubercles on inner margin, 5th joint small, triangular, 6th joint 

 tapering slightly, 7th joint strong and only slightly curved. 



Seventh paraeopod, 2nd joint equal to 5th-7th together, 3rd joint 

 slightly expanded posteriorly, with apical setae, 4th joint with 1 

 spine in middle of and 2 at apex of inner margin, 5th joint with 

 1 and 3 spines respectively and also a tuft of plumose setae on 

 posterior apical angle, 6th joint with 1 spine in both of the above- 

 named positions and an apical tuft of setae, 7th joint strongly 

 curved. 



Second pleopod, male stylet reaches nearly to end of rami, straight, 

 narrow, apex blunt. 



Uropods, rami subequal in length, only just reaching beyond 

 telsonic apex, inner rarnus about twice as wide as outer, with 

 bluntly rounded apex, outer lanceolate, apex subacute, both rami 

 fringed with plumose setae. 



Length : 7 mm. ; breadth : 2-5 mm. 



Colour : Yellowish-grey with darker mottlings, a more or less 

 distinct dark median stripe. 



Locality : Zwartkops Eiver, Port Elizabeth. May, 1913. 3 $ 

 and 1 ? with 9 embryos. (Mrs. Patterson.) (S.A.M. No. A2267.) 



GEN. LANOCIRA, Hansen. 



1890. Lanocira, Hansen, Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. ser. 6, vol. 5, pt. 3, 



pp. 313, 391, 395. 



1904. ,, Stebbing in Gardiner's Fauna Maid. Laccad. 



Archip. vol. 2, pt. 3, p. 706. 



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



Eep. 23, p. 19. 

 1910. ,, id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. vol. 31, p. 217. 



LANOCIRA CAPENSIS, n. sp. 

 (Plate XXXI. A.) 



1913. ? Lanocira, sp., Tattersall, Tr. Koy. Soc. Edinb. vol. 49, 

 pt. 4, p. 880. 



Body from about 5th peraeon segment onwards densely setose, 

 more so in the female than in the male, but nearly glabrous in 

 the young. Head with a small upturned rostrum in $ , the pair 

 of tubercles adjacent to the eye very low, surface of the head 



