﻿South African Crustacea. 89 



Family HIPPOLYTIDAE. 



1910. Hippolytidae, Stebbing, Ann. S. African Mus., vol. 6, pt. 4 



p. 390 (with synonymy). 

 1912. „ M. J. Eathbun, Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. 54, 



p. 454. 

 1914. ,, Kemp, Eecords Indian Mus., vol. 10, pt. 2, 



p. 81. 

 1914. ,, Stebbing, Ann. S. African Mus., vol. 15, pt. 1, 



p. 34. 

 Miss Eathbun adds a new genus Barhouria. Mr. Kemp 

 adds two new genera, Gelastocaris and Merguia, and supplies 

 a valuable key to 15 Indo-Pacitic genera of the family. 



Gen. HIPPOLYTE, Leach. 

 1814. Hippolytc, Leach, Edinb. Encycl., vol. 7, p. 431. 



HippoLYTE KRAussiANUs (Stimpson). 



1860. Virbius kraussianus, Stimpson, Pr. Ac. Sci. Philad., p. 105(36). 



1910. Hippolyte kraussiana, Stebbing, Ann. S. African Mus., vol. 6, 

 pt. 4, p. 391. 

 Three specimens in good agreement with Stlmpson's 

 description have been obtained by the Pieter Faure. One of 

 them 29 mm. long considerably exceeds the size mentioned by 

 Stimpson, and the rostrum much exceeds the length of the 

 peduncle of the first antennae, though not reaching the apex 

 of the scale of the second, and otherwise conforming to 

 Stimpson's account, " above at the base bidentate, at the apex 

 tridentate, on the lower margin quadridentate." A second 

 specimen, a female, ovigerous, 18 mm. long, practically agree- 

 ing in this respect with Stimpson's, has, like his, the rostrum 

 little longer than the peduncle of the first antennae, with the 

 dentation numerically the same, except for the addition of a 

 minute ventral tooth. This, however, does not exclude a 

 different arrangement of the teeth in our two specimens, the 

 ventral teeth in the larger being much more remote from the 

 apex than in the smaller, and its median apical tooth being 

 advanced beyond its smaller neighbours above and below, 

 whereas in the smaller specimen the lowest tooth of the three 

 is the largest and the most advanced. In the third specimen, 

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