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side ; flagelluni 2-joiHted, tlie distal joint being two und a- 

 half times the leng-tli of the proximal one ; style elongated 

 with few tei-minal seta3 (fig. 90). First maxillae (fig-. 91) with 

 outer lobe terminating in four stout curved spines and six 

 smaller pointed ones, inner lobe with two short setose spines 

 on the inner margin. The segments of the mesosome (fig. 

 93) are strongly convex ; pleural plates thickened with 

 lateral ridges, strongly curved backwardly and outwardly, 

 terminally truncate, dorsally produced upwardly and out- 

 wardly. Each segment has two transverse rows of large 

 tubercles, excepting the 1st, which has four rows. Last three 

 segments of the metasome with broad pleural plates, dorsum 

 of last segment with only two tubercles, remainder with 

 four. Thoracic appendages comparatively small. Uropod 

 (figs. 94, 95) not extending beyond the telson, basal plate 

 thick, strongly raised and convex, posterior margin trun- 

 cate, antero-dorsal surface broad and convex, dorsally and 

 ventrally with small triangular spines; exopodite short, 

 endopodite longer ;ind more massive, setaceous. Telson 

 (fig. 96) wider than long, extending slightly beyond the 

 uropoda, lateral margins curved inwards, with two prominent 

 tubercles anteriorly, terminal margin truncate or nearly so. 



Length 9*5 mm. 



Colour (in alchol) faint yellow with brownish mottling or 

 wholly creamy- white. 



Habitat.— Mt. Fongosi, Zululand, July, 1917 (W. E. 

 Jones), Sarnia, nr. Durban, Oct. 1910 (E. Warren), Winkle 

 Spruit Beach, S. Coast, Dec. 1916 (C. Akerman). 



Type. — In the Natal Museum. 



II. Bibliography. 



1. Brandt, J. F. — " Conspectus monographise Crustaceorum Onisco- 



dorum Latreillii," ' BulL Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou,' 1883. vol. vi. 

 pp. 171-193. 



2. Budde-Ltjnd, G. — "Crustacea Isopoda Terrestriii." ' Haunife.' 1885, 



pp. 1-320. 



