
78 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
Basis of first peraeopods a little longer than rest of limb, the apex with the 
usual external seta, and with a prominent tooth at inner angle; carpus, propo- 
dus and dactylus stout; carpus one-third as long again as propodus and half as 
jong again as dactylus. 
Second peraeopods with basis as long as rest of limb; ischium with a plumose 
seta; merus slightly longer than carpus but shorter than propodus and dactylus 
together, with a long but feeble inner subapical spine, and an outer apical plum- 
ose seta; carpus with two distal spines; propodus and dactylus subequal in length. 
Third to fifth peraeopods with long setae (fig. 3, M. and 6, D), those of 
carpus and propodus reaching well beyond tip of dactylus; carpus of third and 
fourth with five fossorial setae, those of fifth with four. 
Uropods with peduncle one and two-thirds times as long as the exopod, which 
is one-sixth as long again as the endopod; exopod, with a row of seventeen plum- 
ose setae, leaving distal third unfurnished, and with a mucro at apex; endopod 
without spinules, but with four prominent serrations, preceded by closed in- 
cisions, in proximal half of inner edge, posterior to which the branch tapers nar- 
rowly to its acute apex. 
Colour white, with sparse, sooty chromatophores. 
Length, 5 mm. 
Loc, New South Wales: Cronulla, 8 feet (K. Sheard, submarine light, Sept. 
1942). Type in South Australian Museum, Reg. No. ©. 2400. 
CYCLASPIS MOLLIS sp. nov. 
Ovigerous female. Integument smooth and polished, without pitting or 
granulation, but with a regular, minute reticulate or squamose patterning; thin 
and not calcified, so that it bends but does not fracture under pressure. 
Carapace with upper margin in lateral view, and sides as seen from above, 
smoothly and quite markedly curved, without any sign of projections; in dorsal 
view it is ovoid; length almost two-sevenths of total length of animal; widest at 
second third of length, where it is two-thirds its length; dorsum with a low 
carina, which is most distinct on anterior half, where it is flanked by a shallow 
depression on each side; thence, as it continues back, it is wider but more feeble, 
terminating before it reaches the hinder margin, which is evenly rounded and in 
side view slopes obliquely downward and forward. Antennal notch wide, 
rounded, and antennal angle acutely rounded. Pseudorostral lobes meeting in 
front for a distance equal to almost half the length of eye-lobe, which is sub- 
triangular in shape not constricted at base, broad (as wide as long) with pro- 
minent brown pigment and with large but obseurely defined lenses. 
Exposed pedigerous somites together much more than half as long as eara- 
pace. First somite only partly concealed, the exposed portion short; second 
somite longer than third, fourth or fifth somites, with anterior margin parallel 
to posterior edges of carapace, the dorsum smoothly rounded in side view and 
continuing the dorsal outline of carapace; second to fifth somites with a feeble 
median dorsal carina. 
Pleon with feeble articular pegs and with a faint median dorsal ridge on 
each somite; first to fourth somites subequal in length, each only two-thirds as 
long as fifth; telsonic somite distinctly shorter, not much more than half length 
of fifth. 
First antennae relatively long; first joint of peduncle not quite as long as 
second and third segments together; third as long as second and less than 
twice as long as the flagellum, which is two-jointed, the first joint nearly 
twice as long as second; two short, four-jointed sensory apical appendages 
(? damaged, fig. 8, A). 
