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The inner ramus is ovate-lanceolate and as long as the outer 
both are elegantly fringed. The telson is shorter than the 
uropods, tapering, with a shallow median sulcation and the 
usual quadrately placed spines, and a fasciculus of sete near 
the proximal end above; it terminates in five teeth and 
two spines, and is fringed to about halfway up the sides. 
The ova are small and numerous. 
Length from base of rostrum to base of telson, 27 mm. 
Length of carapace, 10 mm. 
Obtained in shallow water at Smith's Bay, Kangaroo Is- 
land, by R. Baker, January, 1903. 
Type specimens, two, in Adelaide Museum. 
A sixth species is unique; a female found by Mr. Zietz 
amongst Dr. Verco's dredgings from 20-30 fathoms. Tt be- 
longs to the family Crangomdæ, of the same tribe as the 
preceding, and is related to both the genera Pontophilus and 
Sabinea, with tendencies towards Pontocaris, but I am of 
opinion that it requires to be placed in a new genus, mainly 
for the following reasons: — First, the shape of the body and 
the relationship of the parts, though the cephalo-thorax is 
not so long, it is quite as bulky as the pleon; secondly, the 
peculiar position of the eyes, their distance apart and sessile 
character; thirdly, though the second pereiopods are re- 
duced in length and non-chelate, they are still comparatively 
strong, and reach as far as the carpus of the first pair; 
fourthly, the telson is broad and more Alpheus-like than in 
any figures of other species of the same family I have seen; 
unfortunately, I am not able to state whether the branchiæ 
are six or seven. 
Tribe, CARIDEA. 
Family, CRANGONIDÆ. 
Genus, Vercoia, n. (en. 
Body short. 
Carapace deep, as long as the first four segments of the 
pleon, little compressed laterally, broad, produced at the 
antero-lateral angles, its lower margin making an obtuse 
angle about the middle. { 
Eyes distant, large, оп very short peduncles, which аге 
hidden by the cephalic portion of the carapace, in distiuet 
orbits formed above by that portion of the carapace and 
below by the produced antero-lateral regions, and anteriorly 
by processes of the antennules. 
Rostrum shaped as is usual in Pontophilus, placed far in 
advance of the eyes. 
Antennular peduncles very short, much hidden by the 
cephalo-thorax, the joints with external lateral expansions, 
that of the first completing the orbit in front. 
