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the apex. The second specimen showed 21 dorsal teeth in 

 series, 1 after a long interval, and still another after a shorter 

 interval lying close to the apex, the first and second dorsal 

 teeth were behind the orbit, the twenty-first just behind the 

 foremost of the 10 ventral teeth. A third specimen bore 17 

 teeth in dorsal series, 3 of them behind the orbit, a single tooth 

 after a long interval, and after a short interval 1 tooth near the 

 apex ; the ventral teeth were 14, the foremost almost under 

 the single dorsal tooth following the long interval. The fourth 

 specimen, a female with eggs, had 16 dorsal teeth, 2 of them 

 behind the orbit, then a very long interval followed by 2 teeth 

 close to the apex, the 14 ventral teeth reaching much beyond 

 the dorsal series, but not nearly to the apex. The fifth 

 specimen, also a female with eggs, had 17 dorsal teeth 

 followed at a long interval by 2 at the apex, which was 

 approached at a shorter interval by the 13 ventral teeth. The 

 sixth specimen, a small one, had 18 dorsal teeth, of which the 

 foremost was slightly more distant from its neighbour than 

 the others and followed at a long interval by 2 at the apex, 

 with 12 ventral teeth also distant from the apex. The seventh 

 specimen differs much from the others, having a series of 

 6 teeth, 3 of them behind the orbit, followed at a short distance 

 by a series of 3 ending a little in advance of the eyes, all the 

 rest of the rostrum being devoid of teeth, except a minute 

 group below the apex. This is perhaps a monstrosity rather 

 than a variation. The first specimen measured 24-5 mm. in 

 length ; the apex of the telson carried 7 long spines, 3 on one 

 side and 4 on the other of the minute central point, flanked by 

 a short pair of lateral spines, a similar pair a little higher up 

 being unsymmetrically placed. That one of the named 

 varieties may claim these specimens for its own is not 

 unhkely. 



Locality. Vaal Eiver at Parys (Orange Free State). Col- 

 lected by Mr. H. A. Fry. 1471. 



Family STYLODACTYLIDAE. 



1880. Stylodactylidae, Bate, Eep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 24, pp. 481, 



850. 

 1902. „ de Man, Abhandl. Senckenb. Naturforsch. 



Gesells., vol. 25, p. 897, 

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