PTIYLLOPOD CRUSTACEA 57 



Family Cyzicidae Stclihing-Baniard 



1910 Cy::icidac (part.) Stebbing. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 6:486 



1929 Cyacidae Barnard. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 2-J (1) : 253 



"Shell thin, pellucid (but often rendered opaque with extraneous matter), laterally com- 

 pressed, ovate in outline, with numerous and distinct growth-lines and more or less dis- 

 tinct surface sculpturing. Head without frontal appendage, with distinct fornix on each 

 side extending to apex of rostrum. Rostrum unarmed, or with a minute apical spinule in the 

 young wiiich may persist in adult 2 , but not in adult S . Eyes contiguous. First antennae 

 long with numerous lobes on anterior margin bearing sensory setae. Second antenna strong. 

 Twenty to twenty-seven pairs of legs; 1st and 2nd pairs in S prehensile, 9th and 10th pairs 

 in 5 ovigerous. Caudal furca claw-like. Foremost tooth on upper margin of telson larger 

 and stronger than the following ones." (Barnard.) 



Genus Eocycicus Daday 



1913 nocy::icus Daday. Math. Termt. Ert. 31 : 567, 574 (sec. Barnard) 



1915 Eocyciais Daday. Ann. Sci. Nat. (ser. 9) 29: 190 



With occipital angle rounded or rounded-quadrate in bnth sexes. Rostrum of 9 acute, 

 of S with a less sharp angle (often obtuse). 



Eocyzicus hutchinsoni n. sp. 



Localities: Punjab: Tahsil of Kushab, Dam between Naushara and Mardwal It? 1$. 

 12-111-32. 



I'uNjAis: Tahsil of Kushab, 3 miles smith on Nuriwala, Kushab-Naushara iviad 

 29 5. 6-1 11-32. 



Types: Peabody Museum of Yale University. Paratypes : British Museum, 1 retained. 



Male: (Type only.) Shell ovate, umbone moderately prominent, dorsal margin straight, 

 passing almost imperceptibly into hind margin; about 15 growth lines, outermost and inner- 

 most very faint; free margin and outer 2-3 g-rowth lines with minute spines. Pits of shell 

 sculpture moderately large but so shallow as to be obscure. Rostrum of S acute (extreme 

 end minutely truncated) ; posterior angle of rostrum rounded; anterior and posterior mar- 

 gins of rostrum nearly parallel. Supraorbital margin of head sinuous. F^irst antennae with 

 about 14 lobes; 2nd antennae with both rami of 12-14 joints; spines on anterior margins i>{ 

 joints smooth, or a few slightly ctenate. Twenty-two pairs of legs; inner margin of the 

 '"hand"' of prehensile legs with strong notch in 1st pair, slightly sinuous in 2n(l i)air; "tlunnb"' 

 broad; spinous patch long and narrow in both pairs. Last 14 pedigerous segments armed 

 dorsally (si)ine-formula from behind f (jrward : 1, 1, 1, 1, 3?, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1). Telson 

 with claws markedly asymmetrical, each preceded by 14 smootii, very unequal denticles, of 

 A-hich 1 near the middle of the row is about as large as the first. Furcal claw with 7 plumose 

 setae on the dorsal, inner margin. Dimensions of shell: 10.6 x 6.9 mm. 



