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lateral marf:;in endin;^ in a little tooth, the remaining sixth forming 

 a half oval fringed with 14 pairs of long plumose setae. 



The total length of the body was 30 mm., the carapace being 

 10 mm. long and the telson 5 mm. 



Locality. Delagoa Bay, the specimen obtained by ;^^r. K. H. 

 Barnard. A 2130. 



Alpheus lottini, Gu^rin. 



1826-30. Alpheus lottini, Guerin, Voy. de La Coquille, Atlas, Crust., 



pi. 3, fig. 3. 

 1B37. ,, centrosns, Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. 2, 



p. 352. 



1837. Alplmeus lothmii, Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., vol. 2, 



p. 353 footnote. 



1838. Alpheus lottinii, Guerin M6neville, Voy. de La Coquille, 



Zool, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 38. 



1839. Alpheus laevis, Eandall, J. Ac. Sci. Philad., vol. 8, p. 141. 

 1852. „ „ Dana, U.S. Expl. Exp., vol. 13, p. 556, pi. 35, 



fig. 8a-h. 

 1899. „ „ Coutiere, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., Ser. 8, vol. 9, 



pp. 250, 262, figs. 307, 324, 325. 

 1905. Alpheus ventrosus, Coutiere, Maldive-Laccadive Archip., vol. 2, 



pt. 4, p. 882. 

 1911. ,, „ deMan,Siboga Exp., vol. 39a', pp. 311,339. 



^lilne-Edwards says that " L'xAlphee de Lottin dont il a 6t^ 

 public une bonne figure, mais dont la description n'a pas encore 

 paru, paralt etre tres-voisine de I'esp^ce precedente," namely, 

 his own Alpheus ventrosus. But the description of A. ventrosus 

 does not seem to justify any claim for the priority of that 

 name over Guerin's A. lottini. Bate's figure of A. laevis in 

 the Challemjer report cannot easily be reconciled with the 

 species here in question. 



Our specimen, a female with eggs in a forward state of 

 development, was unfortunately bereft of both members of the 

 first pair of pei'aeopods. The second pair were attached to 

 the body, and by their comparative stoutness and the relative 

 lengths of the five compartments of the wrist are in unmistak- 

 able agreement with the figures by Dana and Coutiere. A 

 similar agreement is shown by the broad blunt-ended fingers 

 of the hinder peraeopods, a character so unlike that which is 

 found in most members of the genus. In the uropods a 

 strong dark spine is extended from within and beyond the 



