

136 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MusEUM 
longer than carpus and propodus together; dactylus more than twice as long as 
propodus, longer than its longest terminal spine; merus with a long plumose seta, 
and carpus with three strong spines on distal margin. Fossorial legs with basis 
as long as (third) or a liltle shorter than remaining segments together; setae 
short, three on carpus as in fig, 38, 1. Uropods with rami subequal in length, longer 
than the pedunele, which is longer than the telsonic somite; endopod with apex 
acute and slightly curved ; both margins serrate, the inner also with a row of eight 
downwardly-direected spines on posterior third and with serrate setae on anterior 
two-thirds; inner edge of exopod and pedunele with plumose setae; apex of exo- 
pod narrowly rounded, with small muero. 
Colour brown, with darker spotting. 
Length 8-75 mm, 
Loc. New South Wales: Off Wata Mooli, 35 metres, on sand (Cronulla 'lrawl 
Station 2), and off Eden, 30 metres, coarse sand (Cronulla trawled Oct, 1948). 
Type male in South Australian Museum, Reg. No. C. 2394. 
CYCLASPIS PRUINOSA sp. DOV. 
Adult male. Integument strongly ealcified, the body somites with minute 
spines, giving the animal a hoary appearance. 

c A= 
a Pa 
Vig. 55. Cyclaspis prvinosa, type male; A, lutern] view; B, carapace and second to fourth 
pedigerous somites from ubove; C, culcification of carapace (A and B, % 18; G, % 140), 
