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First peraeopod Jess than one-fourth as long again as carapace, the carpus 
reaching slightly beyond level of antennal augle; basis one-fourth longer than 
remaining: joints together, with » long, plumose seta at outer apical angle; only 
a feeble suggestion of an apical tooth; meris with a amall peg-like artienlar pro- 
cess at distal end; carpus half as long again as merus and barely longer than 
propodus ; daetylus three-fifths length of propodus with two slender terminal 
setae, and a few insignificant hairs. 

Fig. 15, Oyclaspis sheardi, type mole; A, lateral view and B, carapace from above (& 28). 
Basis of second peraeopods not quite as long as remaining joints together; 
merus wnarmed, not as long as carpus and propodus together; carpus barely 
longer than dactylus, with two unequal spines (one about twice as long as the 
other) at outer distal angle, aud one, shorter, near the inner angle, which is some- 
what produced ; propodas two-thirds as long as dactylus, which is a little shorter 
than its longest terminal spine; other two apieal daetylar spines short, unequal 
in length. 
Posterior peracopods with two setae at oaler distal angle of carpns, the loner 
not reaching beyond apex of dactylns. 
Pedunele of uropods half as long again as telsoni¢ somite, almost as long as 
fifth pleon somite and about one-fifth as long again as rami; tts immer edge bears a 
row of long plumose setae, the distal few shorter than the others; exopod barely 
longer and a litle narrower than endopod, with a row of plimose setae on inner 
margin, leaving apieal third witiurnished; proximal half of inner margin of en- 
dopod oeeupied by a row of nine serrate spines fullowed by a series of seven stowter 
spines set in servations, which oceupy most of the distal half; apices of both rami 
simple and subacute. 
Colour in aleohol, eream with dark brown shading and stellate markings as 
shown in figure. Pleon with a series of oval transparent areas. 
Tn life the body was ‘vivid green with sapphire eyes and with promitient pale 
spots on pleon (tow-net in daylight),’* 
Length 5+2 mm. 
Loo, South Australias Spencer Gulf, off Wardang Island (IK. Sheard, tow-net, 
Mar, 1958) ; Spencer Gulf, off Wallaroo, 5 fath. (IX. Sheard, Feb, 1988) ; Spencer 
Gulf, Page Island, 9 fath., and sCanieeroo Tsland, Antechamber Bay (K. Sheard, 
1989) ; Spencer Gal, Corny Point (K, Sheard, 1941), Vasmania: off Cape Bar. 
ren Island (D. L. Serventy, tow-net, Nov. 1939). New South Wales, off Jibbon 
40 weires (Cronulla Station 6, July 1943). 
