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palm with a slight central notch, denticulate between notch and hinge, 
very faintly denticulate between notch and the strong defining tooth ; 
hind margins of Znd joint of peraeopods 3-5 faintly serrulate near 
distal end only ; apices of telson tridentate, outer one smaller than the 
other two, which are subequal, a spine in the notch between each 
tooth. 
Length: 138 mm. 
Colour: In spirit, pale yellowish or pinkish, eyes red-brown. 
Locality: Table Bay. 1897. 2 ¢ g, 1 juv. (Dr. W. F. Purcell) ; 
Woodstock beach (Cape Town). 6/4/08. 2 gg. (EH. P. Phillips and 
R. M. Lightfoot) ; Cape Morgan N. 3 W., distant 10 miles. 77 fathoms. 
1 ovigerous 2 ; and Hood Point. N. by W. 4 W., distant 1] miles. 49 
fathoms. 1 ovigerous @. s.s. ‘ Pieter Faure.’ 26/7/01 and 15/7/01. 
(S.A.M. Nos. 1292, A191, A189 and A2873 respectively.) 
Geogr. Distribution: Mediterranean (Costa, Della Valle, Chev- 
reux) ; Azores (Barrois) ; Ceylon (Walker) ; Seychelles, Red Sea and 
Wasin, Brit. E. Africa, 10 fathoms (Walker); New South Wales ° 
(Stebbing) ; Bermuda (Kunkel). 
MAERA HIRONDELLEI Chevreux. 
1900. Maera hirondellei Chevreux, Rés. Camp. Monaco, vol. 16, p. 84, 
pl. 11, figs. la-7. 
L906. 7; : Stebbing, Lc. p. 732. 
1910. cA Chevreux, Mém. Soc. Zool. Fr. vol. 23, p. 218. 
The South African specimens agree so well with Chevreux’s species 
that the few differences which are present cannot be regarded otherwise 
than as local variations and also perhaps as due to age. Chevreux 
expresses a doubt as to whether his ¢ 3 were adult, but does not say 
whether the 2 2 were ovigerous. 
The 5th joint of Ist gnathopod indented on anterior margin just 
before the acute apex. 
The hand of 2nd gnathopod is broader in proportion to its length 
than in Chevreux’s specimen, the two teeth at defining angle of palm 
stronger. Chevreux in the enlarged figures of the 2nd gnathopod 
(figs. ly and 1j) shows these 2 teeth, but in the text speaks of only 
one. The insertions of the bundles of setae along the distal portion 
of the inferior margin of hand rather deep, causing a distinctly serrate 
appearance, 
The mandibular palp is of normal length (cf. Sars’ figure of M. 
othonis, Crust. Norw. vol. 1, pl. 182, fig. 1), the 5rd joint a little 
shorter than 2nd. 
