274, Annals of the South African Museum. 
Geogr. Distribution: Mediterranean (Costa, Della Valle); Cadiz, 
Azores, Senegal, 0-10 metres (Chevreux). Stebbing records it also 
from Cuba and Hong Kong. 
Famity PODOCERIDAKE. 
1849. Dulichidae Dana, Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2, vol. 8, pp. 135, 140. 
1857. Dyopedidae Bate, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. 19, p. 150. 
1888. Dulichiidae Stebbing, Challeng. Rep. vol. 29, p. 1182. 
1906. Podoceridae id. Das Tierreich, 21, p. 694. 
1910. id. Gen. Cat. S.A. Crust. p. 464. 
Gen. LAETMATOPHILUS  Bruzelius. 
1859. Laetmatophilus Bruzelius. Svenska. Ak. Handl. ns. vol. 6, 
p. 10. 
SOC Sr pas: Stebbing, l.c. p. 695. 
LAETMATOPHILUS PURUS Stebbing. 
1888. Laetmatophilus purus Stebbing lc. p. 1198, pl. 182. 
1898. 5 tuberculatus (part) Della Valle, F. u. FI. 
Neapel. vol. 20, p. 317. 
1894. - purus G. O. Sars, Crust. Norw. vol. 1, p. 630. 
1906. - »  wstebbing, l.c. p: 696, figs. 120, 121. 
USO: s aid: chaps 404: 
The Challenger specimen was a male. The female has no row of 
serrate spines leading to the palmar angle on 6th joint of the Ist 
gnathopod, the 2nd gnathopod similar to that of L. tuberculatus 
Bruz. as figured by Sars (Le. pl. 226), the palm marked off from 
hind margin, which is about 3 its length, by an acute process, 
several very low rounded tubercles towards the hinge; in other 
respects no sexual difference except that the body is broader in the 
female. 
Length: 6 mm. 
Colour: In spirit, whitish, eyes reddish-brown. 
Locality : Cape St. Francis NE., distant 29 miles. 75 fathoms. 
1 ¢; North of Robben Island (Table Bay). ¢¢ and ? ? with 
ova and embryos; Paternoster Point SE. ? E., distant 9 miles (off 
Saldanha Bay). 80 fathoms. @¢ and ovigerous 2? 2. ss. 
“Pieter Faure.” 19/2/02, 28/10/97, and 17/3/02. (S.A.M. Nos. 
A109, A110, and A111 respectively.) 
