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Fifth peraeopod subequal to 3rd, 2nd joint oval, not apically 
produced, hind margin serrate and setose, 4th and 5th joints subequal, 
6th a trifle longer. 
First and second uropods, rami of Ist uropod subequal, of 2nd 
outer a trifle shorter than inner, apices obtuse, spinose, inner apical 
angle of peduncle of Ist with one strong spine, of 2nd with several 
spines. 
Third uropod elongate, peduncle extending as far back as apices of 
ist and 2nd uropods, outer ramus at least thrice as long as peduncle, 
2-jointed, 2nd joint small, not + length of Ist, no sexual difference 
in length of 2nd joint, margins with 2-5 groups of long spines, 
apices of both joints spinose, inner ramus 1 length of Ist joint of 
outer, apex obtuse, spimose. 
Length: 9 mm. 
Colour: In spirit, brownish. 
Locality: Lion’s Head SE. 3 E., distant 42 miles (off Cape 
Peninsula). 156 fathoms. 3¢ 4, 3 ovigerous ? 2. ss. “ Pieter 
Favre.” 13/3/00. (8.A.M. No. A194.) 
Gen. MELITA Leach. 
1313/14. Melita Leach, Edinb. Enevel. vol. 7, p. 403, 
1875. Paramoera (part) Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. 16, 
p. 79. 
1906. Melita Stebbing, Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 421, 732. 
1908. ,,  Chevreux, Bull. de l’Inst. océan. Monaco, no. 122, p. 6. 
1909: , Chilton, Subantarct. Is. N. Zeal. vol. 2, p. 650. 
1910. ,, Stebbing, Sci. Res. “Thetis,” pt. 12, p. 596. 
1910. » Kunkel, Tr. Conn. Ac. vol. 16, p. 31. 
1911. , . Chevreux, Mém. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 23, p. 213. 
MELITA FRESNELI (Audouin). 
(Plate XXVIII. Fig. 32.) 
326. Gammarus fresnelii Audouin in Descr. Egypte, vol. 1, 4, p. 93, 
Crust. pl. 11, fig. 3. 
1845. i anisochir Kriyer, Naturh. Tidsskr. ser. 2, vol. 1, 
p. 317, pl. 2; figs. la—p. 
1852. Melita pilosus Dana, Proc. Amer. Ac. vol. 2, p. 212. 
1855. ,, validus id. U.S. Expl. Exp. vol. 13, 2, p. 966, pl 66, 
fig. 6. 
1€55. ,,  setipes id. ibid. p. 967, pl. 66, fig. 7. 
