
[LLALE AUSTRALIAN CIMACEA 199 
Colour, yellow, the carupace with a few isolated brown spots, oné near pos- 
tevo-lafteral comer, one tear end ol psendorostval suture, and one over branelial 
region ov each side, also a pair of dorsal spots near hind margin; basis of third 
and fourth peraeopods with a brown spot. 
Length 1-2mm. Ova (+19 mim, in greatest diameter. Other females 1+4 mm. 
Adult male. Carapace slightly depressed, almost twice as long as deep, less 
than half total length of animal, and with dorsal margin seareely arched; lateral 
furrew lishinet, Psevidorostral lobes subtruncate in front. 
First and second pechgerons somites elevated and curving slightly forwards 
on the haek, medianly angular; pleural portions of first concealed, of second to 
fifth swollen andl slightly produeed baelkwards; dorsum of third to fifth somites 
somewhat tumid, 
Pleo as long as carapace; telsonie somite rather angularly rounded posteri- 
orly, a8 long as wide, procuced over bases of nropods, and distinetly shorter than 
fifth somite, which is wider at posterior end than tt is anteriorly, and is nearly half 
as long again as wide, 
Seeond maxilliped as in temate, Third maxilliped with merus rather more 
robust, and distinctly shorter than earpus and propodus together. 
Peracopods, excep for larger basis, of same proportions as in female; longest 
terminal seta of dactylus of second peraeopod ag long as propodas and dactylus 
logether. 
Peduncle ot uvopud fully twice as long as telsouic somite and less than twiee 
as long as endopod, with several setae, increasing successively in length, on distal 
half of inner margin; exopod shorter than endopod, with the longest of its two 
Unequal terminal spines longer than the whole ramus; endopod with a row of 
seven spines on inner margin and with the longer distal spine two-thirds as long 
as Tamia. 
Colour as in female, 
Length 19mm, Otheradull males 1-5 mum, to 17m, 
Loe. Queensland: Moreton Kay, Myora Bight, surface (1. 8. R. Munro, Sta- 
tipnea BS, 29, 44 [type loc.) and 46, 50 em, 40 nt, mot, 2.80 aan, 3,30 am., 9.80 
pam. and 11.80 pam, Nav, 29, 1840), and in shallow water over coral pate (1.8. 
R. Munro, Station 56, 60 em. 40 m. net, 940 p.m., Dec. 6, 1940) ; Noosa River, 
helow Gympie Terrace, sucfate (1. 5. BR. Munro, Station 'T44.1, 60 em. 40 m, 
net, 9.12 p.m., Mar. 25,1944), Typein South Australian Museum, Reg No. C. 2620. 
‘he tiny type female has a patch of granules ow the baek of the earapace in 
the posteror half but these are absent in the other specimens, In the male the 
spines ou the fmer margin of the endopod of the uropod vary in number from 
seven 10 nine, but the setue of the peduncle of this appendage ure vestricted to (is- 
tol half. The small series of adults exhibit a rather unusual range in size but the 
appordages of all ave too alike to adinit the probability of more than one species. 
In general, miner rathor closely resenibles wirisuleata, but apart. from the 
much smaller size ig distinguished by the markedly more distinct lateral impres- 
sion on, Lhe carapace, the proportions of the joints of the third maxilliped and first 
anid second peraeopods, and the shorter nrapod; further, the phimose dactylar setac 
of (he second leg ave very long whereas in wnisulcata they are msignificant, 
The peraeopoia are remarkably like those of triplicata but that species ts. at, 
once separaterl by the three lateral carinae, while the carapace of the male is mare 
arehed, (he third maxilliped is distinetive, ete. 
The carapace of the female has (he lateral furrow much as i that of lutidac- 
hyld, whieh has very different peraeopods; it is, however, more boldly arched dor- 
sally, a8 my glabew and thompson, but does not project backwards over the free 
nedigerons somiles as in the two last-aamed species. 
