Crustacean Fauna of South Africa. 215 
Length: 2°5 mm. 
Colour: Dull yellowish, peraeon segments 6 and 7 and pleon 
segment 1 bright orange. 
Locality : Sea Point, near Cape Town. 26/2/14. (K.H.B.) 9 2, 
some ovigerous. (S.A.M. No. A2936.) 
Geogr. Distribution: Brittany (Chevreux) ; Ceylon (Walker). 
The differences between these and Walker's Ceylon specimens 
are to be found in the Ist side-plates, 2nd and 4th joints of peraeopod 
3 and the plumose setae on peraepods 4 and 5. 
Walker does not specially mention the 2nd maxilla, but says the 
mouth-parts “seem to agree with Della Valle’s figures.” In the 
South African specimens the 2nd maxilla is very different from Della 
Valle’s figure, the inner plate being relatively smaller. 
These small differences, however, are scarcely important enough to 
separate the Ceylon and South African specimens. 
Famity TALITRIDAE. 
1813/14. Orchestidae Leach, Edinb. Eneyel. vol. 7, p. 432. 
1857. Subfam. Talitrint Costa, Mem. Acc. Napoli, vol. 1, p. 173. 
1906. Talitridae Stebbing, Das Tierreich, 21, pp. 523, 735. 
TO: - id. Gen. Cat. S.A. Crust. p. 458. 
1910. a Kunkel, Tr. Conn. Ac. Sci. vol. 16, p. 61. 
Among the representatives of this family in South Africa is Orchestia 
bottae, recorded by Krauss and retained in the General Catalogue by 
Stebbing. It is almost certain that Krauss was wrong in his identi- 
fication, but as I have not been able to see his specimens I cannot 
throw any further light on this species. From the habitat given by 
Krauss, ‘‘in algae on the coast,” one would suspect it to be a species 
of Hyale. (See Parorchestia dassenensis infra.) 
Gren. TALORCHESTIA Dana. 
1853. Subgen. Talorchestia Dana, Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 310. 
1906 Talorchestia Stebbing, Lc. pp. 543, 735 (references). 
1914. - Tattersall, Rec. Ind. Mus. vol. 8, pt. 5, p. 449. 
Bate’s South African species 7. africana still remains rather 
doubtful owing to the elusiveness of the male. H. W. Bell-Marley, 
Esq.; of Durban, has so far been unable to find this sex, though he 
has forwarded several females to Mr. Stebbing and to this Museum. 
