Crustacean Fauna of South Africa. om 
MELITA INAEQUISTYLIS (Dana). 
1852. Amphitoe (Melita) inaequistylis and tenuicornis Dana, Proc. 
Amer. Ac. vol. 2, pp. 214 and 215. 
1853 and 1855. Melita tenuicornis id. U.S. Expl. Exp. vol. 13, 2, p. 963 
pl. 66, figs. 5a-m. 
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1862. Moera 3 Bate, Cat. Amphip. Brit. Mus. p.195, 
pl. 35, fig. 6. 
1876. Paramoera 93 Miers, Cat. Crust. N. Zeal. p. 127, 
jolly atone) (CS). 
1893. Melita palmata (part) Della Valle, F. u. Fl. Neapel. vol. 20, 
p. 714. 
1904. Maera tenmcornis Walker in Herdman’s Ceylon Pearl Fish. 
Suppl. Rep. 17, p. 273, pl. 5, fig. 33. 
1904. Melita zeylanica Stebbing, Spolia Zeylanica, vol. 2, pt. 5, p. 22, 
pl. 5. 
1906. ,, ~~ inaequistylis id. Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 429, 732. 
1906. ,,  tenuwicornis Chilton, Tr. N.Z. Inst. vol. 38, Dopo 
1909. ,, —- imaequistylis id. Subant. Is. N. Zeal. p. 630. 
Lhe . id. Tr. N.Z. Inst. vol. 43, p. 564. 
Ar r Stebbing, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1914, p. 366. 
Side-plate 5 in 2 not hooked. 
Pleon segment 4 in g¢ with 1 medio-dorsal acute tooth on hind 
margin, segment 5 with 2 subdorsal teeth on either side (no medio- 
dorsal tooth); 2 sometimes without a tooth on segment 4 and with 
only 1 subdorsal tooth on either side on segment 5. Postero-inferior 
angle and posterior and inferior margins of 3rd pleon segment as 
figured by Walker. 
Telson, inner margin slightly concave, apices acute, outer margin 
with 2 subapical spines, inner margin with 3 (2 large, 1 small) sub- 
apical spines, 1 smaller one a little beyond middle of inner margin. 
First antenna, 2nd joint longer than Ist, 3rd } 2nd, flagellum a 
little longer than peduncle, ca. 40-jointed, accessory flagellum 5- 
jointed. 
Second antenna, gland-cone acute, reaching half way along 3rd, 
ultimate and penultimate joints subequal, flagellum scarcely equal to 
last 2 peduncular joints together, ca. 14-jointed. 
Mandibular palp, Ist joint at least } 2nd, 2nd and 38rd subequal. 
Maxilliped, 3rd joint of palp expanded, obovate. 
First gnathopod in g as in Della Valle’s figure of that of M. 
palmata (Montagu); in 2 6th joint without the process on front 
