
94 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
inner not quite attaining distal end of ischium (fig. 20, A1) ; propodus one-fifth 
as long again as carpus and fully half as long again as dactylus, which is longer 
than its longest terminal seta. 
Basis of second peraeopod as long as rest of limb; ischium with an outer 
plumose seta; merus longer than carpus and propodus together and as long as pro- 
podus and dactylus together, with a strong spine at inner distal angle, and an 
outer plumose seta; carpus with a stout spine inserted near the acute, tooth-like 
apical inner angle, and a more slender outer spine; propodus barely more than 
half length of dactylus, which is shorter than its longest terminal spine. 
Fossorial legs with the setae short (fig. 3, F)) ; merus and carpus subequal in 
leneth; basis of third as long as rest of limb. 
Pedunele of uropods about one-third as long again as telsonic somite and as 
long as exopod; inner margin with half a dozen plumose setae on proximal por- 
tion, followed by about the same number of slender spines, set above which is a 
row of shorter spines; both rami with apex simple and narrowly acute; exopod a 
little longer than endopod, with half a dozen incisions in inner margin, endopod 
with five slender serrate proximal spines on inner margin, followed by a row of 
sixteen shorter and stouter spines of slightly different type, the series ending at 
about second third of length. 
Colour chalky white, with sooty stellate markings and faint blackish mottling. 
Length 6 mm. 
Adult female (developing marsupium). Differs from male as follows. The 
carapace is a little wider and deeper, and is larger, almost one-third of the total 
length. The ocular lobe is slightly narrower, so that it appears less constricted 
basally ; the lenses are smaller and less distinct, the median one seemingly formed 
of two components. The exposed pedigerous somites together are less than half 
as long as the carapace and the dorsal edge of the second slopes downwards less 
steeply. 
In the first peraeopods the propodus is relatively a little longer, one-fourth 
as lone again as merus and one and three-fourths times as long as dactylus. 
The uropods are of the same proportions, but the peduncle lacks setae and 
spines; the proximal spines of the inner edge of the endopod are followed by a 
row of fifteen short spines, which increase gradually in length as in the male. 
Length 5-3 mm. 
Loc. New South Wales: Cronulla, 8 feet (K. Sheard, submarine light. Sept. 
1942, 8 to 8.20 p.m.) Types in South Australian Museum, Reg. No. C. 2418. 
A single female and several adult males are availabe. The spines on the 
inner margin of the endopod show some variation—three to six proximal spines 
followed by fifteen to twenty-three shorter ones, 
South Australian form of cretata. Adult males differ from the examples de- 
seribed above as follows: 
The dactylus of the first peraeopods is relatively a little longer (the propo- 
dus not quite half as long again as it); the basis is longer than the rest of the 
limb. The uropods are as in granulosa with a wide fan of inner plumose setae 
on the peduncle and with plumose setae on the inner ed¢e of the exopod. 
Colour chalky white ; sparse black dots sometimes present. 
Length 4-2 mm. to 6 mm. 
Loc, South Australia: Spencer Gulf, Memory Cove, 3 fath., weedy bottom 
(K. Sheard, Feb. 1941, 8 to 8.30 p.m.), and Page Is., 9 fath., 7 to 7.30 p.m.; 7 fath., 
8 to 8.30 p.m. (K. Sheard, Apl. 1941) ; Kangaroo Is., Antechamber Bay, 4 fath. (K. 
Sheard, Apl. 1941, 8 to 8.30 p.m.). Types in South Australian Museum, Reg. No. 
C. 2366, 2368, 2370 and 2371. 
Many specimens were secured by a submarine light; it seems undesirable to 
accord these examples specifie rank, 
