374 Annals of the South African Muslim. 



as inner, male stylet on second pleopod arising from base of and 

 extending f along rarnus, apex blunt, peduncle witb prominent oval 

 " epipod " on outer margin, inner apical angle without setae. 



Uropods mucb longer than telson, inner ramus -| as long again as 

 telson, outer ramus If times as long as telson. 



Length: $ 15 mm., 5 22 mm. ; breadth: $ 6 mm., ? 13 mm. 



Colour : Yellowish-white with faint bluish tinge, telson except the 

 posterior margin bluish black, eyes black. 



Locality : Chinde, mouth of Zambezi Eiver. 4/11/12. 1 $ , 1 ? 

 with embryos. (K.H.B.) In left branchial cavity of Tylosaurus 

 choravi, Forsk. (S.A.M. No. A2675.) 



Geogr. Distribution: Japan, Sandwich Islands (Sch. & Mein.) ; 

 Japan, on Belone sp. (Thielemann). 



FAMILY SPHAEKOMIDAE. 



For references see Stebbing, Gen. Cat. S.A. Crust. 1910, p. 426. 

 Also :- 



1908. Baker, Tr. and Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. vol. 32, p. 138. 



1910. id. ibid. vol. 34, p. 75. 



1911. id. ibid. vol. 35, p. 89. 



GKOUP HEMIBRANCHIATAE, Hansen. 



GEN. EXOSPHAEEOMA, Stebbing. 



1900. Exospliacroma, Stebbing, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1900, p. 553. 

 1910. id. Gen. Cat. S.A. Crust, p. 428. 



1913. ,, Tattersall, Tr. Eoy. Soc. Edinb. vol. 49, pt. 4, 



p. 882. 



EXOSPHAEROMA GiGAS (Leach). 



1818. Spliacroma gigas, Leach, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. 12, p. 346. 

 1843. ,, jurinii, Krauss, Sudafrik. Crust, p. 65 (non 



Audouin). 



1900. Exosplia&roma gigas, Stebbing, I.e. p. 553, pi. 39. 

 1902. ,, id. S. Afric. Crust, pt. 2, p. 69. 



1910. ,, id. Gen. Cat. S.A. Crust, p. 428. 



1910. Spliaeroma jurinii, id. ibid. p. 427. (Quotes Krauss.) 



