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2. — South African Crustacea (Part VIII. of S.A, Crustacea, for the 

 Marine Investigations in South Africa). — By the Eev. Thomas 

 E. E. Stebbing, M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Fellow of King's 

 College, London, Hon. Memb. New Zealand Inst., Hon. Fellow 

 Worcester College, Oxford. 



(Plates XIII.-XXV. of Vol. XV. Plates LXXVII.-LXXXIX. 

 of Crustacea.) 



In the General Catalogue of South African Crustacea (Ann. S.A. 

 Mus., 1910) forty-nine species were enumerated under the heading 

 of Macrura Genuina. To this list twenty-eight species were subse- 

 quently added (Ann. S.A. Mus., 1914). Of the twenty-two species 

 considered in the present essay eleven are proposed as new, one of 

 them representing a new genus. As nineteen are additional to the 

 two earlier lists, the total of the group in question stands for the 

 moment at ninety-six species. In other divisions of the crusta- 

 cean class a large number of new species have been added to the 

 South African fauna by various authors, especially Dr. G. S. Brady 

 and Mr. K. H. Barnard, since the publication of the General Cata- 

 logue. In any future revision of it attention would have also to be 

 directed to several older species, the habitat of which in these 

 waters as recorded by Lenz and others I overlooked. To under- 

 take such a revision just now" would perhaps be premature, and at 

 any rate on the present occasion is not convenient. But I venture 

 to take this opportunity of cordially thanking Mr. W. H. Bell- 

 Marley, of Durban, for the large number of specimens with which 

 he has favoured me during a course of years from the coast of Natal, 

 effectively corroborating the work of Krauss, who made that coast 

 his principal hunting ground. 



In addition to specimens already acknowledged in this series, Mr. 

 Bell-Marley has sent the followmg : — 



Dehaanius dentatus (Milne-Edwards), with varieties. 

 Blastus fascicularis (Krauss). 



Hiienia proteus, de Haan, new to S. African fauna. 

 Pilumnus xanthoidcs, Krauss. 



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