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Locality. Delagoa Bay. A 2128-9. The specimen was 

 obtained by Mr. K. H. Barnard in October 1912. Another 

 specimen, female, length 163 mm., flagellum of second 

 antennae 430 mm., was earlier obtained by Dr. Gilchrist, 

 together with a male of nearly the same size, oif South Head 

 of Tugela Eiver, in depth between 12 and 14 fathoms, 

 No. 149. 



Teibe CAEIDEA. 



(See these Annals, vol. 15, part 1, p. 28, 1914.) 



Family CRANGONIDAE. 



1853. Crangonidae, Bell, British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, p. 255. 

 1910.' „ Stebbing, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., vol. G, p. 382 (with 



synonymy). 

 1914. „ Balss, Abhandl. K. Bayer, Ak. Wiss., vol. 10. 



SuppL, 2, p. 61. 

 1914. ,, Stebbing, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., vol. 15, part 1, p. 28. 



Gen. PHILOCHEEAS, Stebbing. 



1862. Cherapliilm (part), Kinahan, Proc. Eoyal Irish Ac, vol. 8, 



pt. 1, p. 7. 

 1900. Philocheras, Stebbing, Marine Invest. S. Africa, Crustacea, 



pt. 1, pp. 48, 49. 

 1910. ,, Kemp, Fisheries Ireland, 1908, pp. 135, 143. 



The characters of this genus are very clearly explained 

 by Mr. Kemp, and the species now to be described shows no 

 disagreement with his exposition. 



Philocheras megalocheir, n. sp. 



Plate LXXIX. 



Of British and Irish species the present makes the nearest approach 

 to P. neglect2is (Sars), considered by Kemp to be only a variety of 

 P. bispinosus (Hailstone and Westwood). It has only a single spine 

 behind the rostrum, but it differs from the approximate species in 

 having a much more broadly rounded rostrum, and still more in the 

 great size of the hand and finger of the first peraeopods, to which 



