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First maxilla, outer plate with 8 spines, innermost 2 denticulate, 

 inner plate with 4 plumose setae. 



Second maxilla, all lohes subequal in width, outer and middle ones 

 both with 8 spine-setae. 



Maxilliped normal. 



Male appendages on 7th peraeon segment short, apically blunt, 

 distance apart equal to the width of one of them . 



First to third pleopods with 4 hooked setae on inner apical angle 

 of peduncle. 



Male stylet on 2nd pleopod J as long again as ramus, tapering to 

 a tine point. 



Length: $ 12 mm., ? 10 mm. ; breadth: $ 6'5 mm., ? 5'25 mm. 



Colour: Usually a uniform yellowish brown, the borders of the 

 segments and the tubercles of a brighter and deeper hue ; or the 

 male has head, lateral parts of 1st peraeon segment, whole of 5th, 

 6th and 7th segments, the two tubercles on 4th pleon segment, 

 posterior half of telson and uropods pale whitish, the central part of 

 1st peraeon segment, whole of 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments, lst-4th 

 pleon segments and basal half of telson sepia-brown ; the female 

 corresponding to this form either resembles the $ or has the head, 

 peraeon, pleon and basal central part of telson brown, the remainder 

 of telson and the uropods pale ; both sexes with a light brown band 

 across the middle of the uropods. Specimens also occur of a nearly 

 uniform slaty-grey colour, or grey-brown with lighter mottlings, or 

 (very rarely) pure white. 



Locality : Various places in Table Bay (E. M. Lightfoot, K.H.B.), 

 (S.A.M. Nos. A243, A2283, A2565, and A2605) ; St. James, False 

 Bay (Dr. W. F. Purcell, K.H.B.), (S.A.M. Nos. 9859 and A2677) ; 

 Smitswinkel Bay, False Bay. 5/7/12. (K.H.B.) $ $ and ovigerous 

 ? $ (S.A.M. No. A2467); Saldanha Bay. 5/9/12. (K.H.B.) $ $ 

 and ovigerous 2 ? (S.A.M. No. A2462) ; East London. 3/7/01. 

 s.s. " Pieter Faure " (S.A.M. No. A241). Between tide-marks. 



Saldanha Bay (Tattersall). 



The specimens from False Bay and East London are smaller than 

 those from Table Bay. 



EXOSPHAEROMA BREVITELSON, n. Sp. 



(Plate XXXII. B.) 



Body moderately convex, smooth, epimera visible in dorsal view. 

 Anterior margin of head with 2 shallow indents on either side of 

 median point. Peraeon segments without any tubercles, only a 



