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the base three spines standing out at right angles to the 

 margin, the lowest one straight, the other two rather larger 

 and apically knobbed or hooked ; of the four-jointed palp the 

 first joint is very short, the second not very long but distally 

 very wide, overlapping the base of the next joint on the 

 outer side with a narrow point, on the inner with a broad 

 fringed lobe ; the third joint is the longest, fringed on the 

 inner margin, widening almost abruptly from the base, its 

 distal margin truncate, much wider than the rounded oval, 

 small, partially fringed, fourth joint. 



Of the specimens sent me from the Cape two were dredged 

 in Table Bay, and measured respectively 48 and 51 mm., 

 two from Woodstock Beach, Table Bay, measured 39 and 40 

 mm. The range of the species includes the Indian Ocean, 

 New Zealand, South Australia, Auckland, Chili, Rio Janeiro, 

 as well as the Cape of Good Hope. 



FaM. : CyMOTHOIDAE. 



1867. Cy/nothoidae, Bate and Westwood, British Sessile-eyed 



Crustacea, v, 2, p. 274, 

 1880. Cymothoidae, Harger, U.S. Fish and Fisheries Report, 



Pt. 6 for 1878, p. 390. 

 1890. Cymothoidae, Hansen, " Cirolanidae," Vidensk, Selsk., 



Ser. 6, Naturv. Afd., v. 3, pp. 316, 406. 

 1893. Cyjjiothoidac, wStebbing, History of Crustacea, p. 340. 

 1897. Cymotho/dae, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, v. 2, p. 67. 

 1899. CyniofJioidae, H. Richardson, Pr. U.S. Mus., v. 21, 

 'p. 828. 



The genus Cymothoa^ established by Fabricius in 1 793, 

 covered a very miscellaneous group of forms. In 18 18 Leach 

 (Diet. Sci. Nat., v. 12, p. 339) instituted the family 

 Cymothoadae (see also Desmarest. Consid. gen Crustaces, 

 p. 292, 1825). From this in 1840 Milne-Edwards (Hist. Nat. 

 Crust., V. 3, p. 226) removed the Sphaeromidae and Linmoria, 

 and established the Famille des Cymothoadiens, including 

 three tribes, of which the first contained only the genus 

 Scrolls, the other two, the errant and the parasitic, corres- 

 ponding respectively to the yEgidae and the Cymothoidae of 

 Bate and Westwood. Carus in 1885 (Prodromus Faunae 

 Mediterraneae, v. i, p. 436] retains the family Cymothoidae 

 of Milne-Edwards, as Krauss had done in 1843, Krauss, 

 however, calling it Cymothoidea. Dana in 1853, under a 

 sub-tribe Cymothoidea, includes three families, Cymothoidae^ 

 ^gidae, Spheromidae. In their Monograph of the 

 Cymothoae, 1879- 1884, Schiodte and Meinert recognize four 



