190 Annals of the South African Museum. 
1864. Melita ewilii Fr. Miller, Fiir Darwin, p. 6, fig. 
1879. .. australis Haswell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. 4, p. 264, 
plo} tigs.16, 7. 
1890. ,, cotesi Giles, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 59, p. 64, pl. 2, 
fio: ih. 
1904. ,,. anisochir Walker in Herdman’s Ceylon Pearl Fish. Suppl. 
Rep. 17, p. 270, pl. 4, fig. 28. 
1906. ,,. Fresnelii Stebbing, Le. p. 423 (synonymy and references). 
1909. Ms F: Walker, Tr. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. vol. 12, pt. 4, 
p. 334. 
1OTOR es; rn Stebbing, Le. p. 596. 
1910. f s Kunkel, l.c. p. 31, fig. 11. 
HOST = . Pearse, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. 43 [1913], 
p. 3¢1. 
In these specimens the dorsal teeth on the pleon vary slightly from 
Stebbing’s description in Das Tierreich. The median tooth on all the 
segments is very minute or even absent, on segments | and 2 there are 
3 subdorsal teeth on either side, on segment 3 two teeth, of which the 
lower one is the larger and apically bifid, on either side, on segment 4 
only 2 large teeth, on segment 5 two small ones. 
The eye tends to become oval in the adult. 
Twelve of the ¢ ¢ are “left handed” and eight “right handed.” 
Length: 8 mm. 
Colour: Pale straw coloured, speckled with brown, a small dark 
brown median dorsal spot on peraeon segments 2—7 and pleon segment 
1, side-plates and pleura also speckled and spotted with dark brown, 
antennae, peraeopods and uropods spotted and banded with orange, 
large hand of ¢ blotched with orange and brown, proximal part of 
finger orange, apex of finger and thumb white, eyes brown. 
Locality: Morewood Cove NW. by N. 3 N., distant 3 miles (Natal). 
27 fathoms. 20 ¢¢ 15 2 2, some ovigerous, and 7 juv.; Umbhloti 
River mouth NNW., distant 1 mile (Natal). 27 fathoms. 1 2. 
s.s. ‘Pieter Faure.” 19/12/00 and 21/12/00. Durban, July 1915. 
(H. W. Bell-Marley), 4 ¢¢,5 92,2 juv. (S.A.M. Nos. A 198, 
A3817, and A3845.) 
Geogr. Distribution: Egypt (Audouin) ; Singapore, 10 feet (Dana) ; 
Rio Janeiro, shore (Dana) ; Port Jackson (Haswell) ; Andaman Isles 
(Giles); Ceylon (Walker); Seychelles, 22-36 fathoms (Walker) ; 
Wasin, B.H.A., 10 fathoms (Walker) ; Suakim, 5 fathoms (Walker) ; 
New South Wales, 52 fathoms (Stebbing); Bermuda, 0-12 feet 
(Kunkel) ; Gulf of Mexico, 2-30 fathoms (Pearse). 
