•170 Annals of the South African Museum. 



margin. The character of the fifth pair not clearly ascertained. 

 Pleon with one pair of appendages. 



The single specimen, a male, was 6 mm. in length, with first 

 antennae about 3 mm. long. It was obtained by Dr. Gilchrist, 

 between Bird Island and the mainland, from 18-29 m. depth. 

 No. 89. 



The specific name from the Greek /.uiKpocuKruXoc refers to the great 

 length of the finger in the second gnathopods. 



Gen. METAPEOTO, Mayer. 

 1903. Mctaproto, Mayer, Siboga Exp., pp. 14, 15, 26. 



Metapkoto nov^-hollandi^ (Haswell). 



1880. Proto novce-hoUandicB, Haswell, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.,vol. iv., 



p. 275, pi. 12, fig. 3. 

 1888. Proto n.-h., Stebbing, Challenger Amphipoda, Reports, vol. xxix., 



p. 1230. 

 1903. Metaproto n.-h., Mayer, Siboga Exp., pp. 26, 137, pi. 1, 

 figs. 11, 12, pi. 6, figs. 24-28, pi. 9, figs. 3, 50. 

 On p. 137 Dr. Mayer enters this species with ?? as coming 

 fiom Simon's Bay. 



Gen. CAPRELLINA, G. M. Thomson. 

 1879. Caprellina, Thomson, Tr. N. Zealand Inst., vol. xi., p. 247. 

 1888. Caprellinopsis, Stebbing, Challenger Amphipoda, Reports, 



vol. xxix., pp. 233, 1237, 1268. 

 1903. Caprellina, Mayer, Siboga-Exp., pp. 14, 15, 30. 



■■' Caprellina longicollis (Nicolet). 



1849. Caprella longicollis, Nicolet, Gay's Historia fis. y pol. de Chile, 



vol. iii., p. 251, pi. 4, figs. 3, a-e. 

 1849. C. brevicollis, Nicolet, Gay's Hist. Chile, vol. iii., p. 253, pi. 4, 



fig. 4, a, b. 

 1879. Caprellina novce-zealandice, Thomson, Tr. N. Zealand Inst., 



vol. xi., p. 247, pi. 100, fig. 6, a-d. 

 1882, C. longicollis, Mayer, F. und Fl. Neapel, vol. vi., p. 27, figs. 4, 



5, in text. 

 1903. C. l, Mayer, Siboga Exp., pp. 30, 137. 



Dr. Mayer says : " From the Cape Town Museum W. P. 

 Purcell has sent me among other Caprellidte some twenty 



