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Anilocra capensis, Leach. 



1818. Anilocra capensis. Leach, Diet, Sci. Nat., v. 12, p. 350. 

 1825. Anilocra capensis, Desmarest, Consid. gen. Crust., 



p. 306, t. 48, f. I. 

 1829. Canolira du Cap, Latreille, Regne Animal, Cuvier, 



V. 4, p. 134. 

 1836? Canolira capensis, Guerin-Meneville, Iconographie, 



Crust., t. 29, f. 5. 

 1840. Anilocra capensis, Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, 



V. 3, p. 258. 

 1843. ^inilocra capensis, Krauss, Siidafrik. Crust., p. 66. 

 1 88 1. Anilocra capensis, Schiodte and Meinert, Mon. 



Cymoth., Naturh. Tidsskr., Ser3,v. 13, pp. 103, 146, 



t. 10 (17), f. 4. 



From the other species of the genus this is distinguished 

 by the following combination of characters, that the first 

 antennae are straight, not geniculate, the first free joint of 

 the limbs is not carinate ; the inner branch of the uropods is 

 much shorter than the outer ; and the front of the head is 

 strongly produced and roundly truncate. Of these four 

 characters the first three are common to A. physodes, 

 A. frontalis, and A. plebeia, and of these /i. frontalis has the 

 same frontal character in the adult male but not in the 

 ovigerous female, and A. physodes has the front in the 

 ovigerous female rounded truncate but not strongly produced. 

 The latter species and A. capensis attain a very much greater 

 size than the other two, In A. capensis the eyes are sub-oval, 

 while in A. piiysodes they are described as sub-pentagonal. 



According to Leach's original description, the terminal 

 segment abruptly narrows beyond its middle, and is feebly 

 rounded and almost carinate. Schiodte and Meinert speak 

 of the body as being slightly twisted to the right or the left. 

 The specimen sent me is symmetrical, and has the terminal 

 segment feebly carinate, apically well rounded, with no 

 abrupt narrowing. The length is 53 m.m. Leach describes 

 the colour as brown with an inclination to olive-green or 

 grey, and testaceous or whitish hind margins to the segments. 



Habitat. Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope. Specimens 

 are recorded from Java and Teneriffe. 



Gen. : Meinertia, Stebbing. 



1883. Ceratothoa (not Dana, 1853), Schiodte and Meinert, 

 Mon. Cymothoarum, Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, Ser. 

 3, V. 13, pp. 289, 322. 



1893. Meinertia, Stebbing, History of Crustacea, p. 354. 



