General Catalogue of South African Crustacea. 563 



Habitat in the marsupium of a female of Lemhoicles afer, 

 Stebbing, from South Africa, at or near the Cape of Good 

 Hope . 



THYROSTRACA. 



For the early synonymy of this term see the article Thyrostraca 

 in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, ed. 10, vol. xxxiii., Suppl., vol. ix., 

 p. 319, 1902. 



THORACICA. 

 PEDUNCULATA. 



Family LEPADIDiE. 



Gen. LEPAS, Linn. 



1758. Lepas (part) Linn., Systema Naturte, ed. 10, p. 667. 

 1851. Lepas, Darwin, The Lepadidae, Eay See, p. 67. 

 1907. Lepas, Pilsbry, U.S. Nat. Mus., Bulletin 60, p. 79. 



Lepas anatifera, Linn, 



1758. Lepas anatifera, Linn., Systema Naturae, ed. 10, p. 667. 

 1866. L. a.. Heller, Eeise der Novara, Crustaceen, pp. 253, 267 



(Cape). 

 1883. L. a., Hoek, Challenger Eeports, vol. viii., pt. 3, p. 38, pi. 1, 

 figs. 1, 2. 

 " Cape of Good Hope, November, 1873. Numerous speci- 

 mens of very different sizes (capitulum 5-45 mm.). The 

 larger specimens with ova; taken from a log of wood." 



* Lepas hillii (Leach). 



1818. Pcntalasmis hillii, Leach, Tuckey's Congo Expedit., p. 413. 

 1848. Anatifa Icevis, Brug., Krauss, Die Siidafrikanischen Mol- 

 lusken, p. 136. 

 " At the mouth of the river Knysna." Whether the species 

 named by Krauss belongs to this or the preceding specific 

 name is apparently an open question. 

 1851. Lepas hillii, Darwin, The Lepadidge, Eay Soc, p. 77, pi. 1, 



fig. 2. 

 1910. No. 35, well-grown specimens sent by Dr. Gilchrist, 



