
360 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
Second peraeopod reaching forward almost to level of antennal angle; basis 
very short, only two-thirds as long as exopod and less than half as long as remain- 
ing joints combined; ischium distinct; carpus twice as long as merus and as 
long as propodus and dactylus together ; dactylus twice as long as propodus. 
Posterior peraeopods with sparse setae. Third and fourth pairs about as 
long as second leg, with basis nearly as long as rest of limb; merus and carpus 


dactylus 
prp. 1 
Fig. 2. Sheardia antennata, paratype ovigerous female; ant., first and second antennae 
(Xx 75); mxp. and prp., third maxilliped and first to third peraeopods (XX 56; dactylus of first 
peraeopod, X 112); urop., uropod with fifth and sixth pleon somites, and telson (xX 56); tels. 
1, and v., lateral and ventral views of telson (XX 75). 
subequal in length, each twice as long as propodus; carpus with two equal distal 
setae, one much stouter than the other, reaching to level of tip of dactylus. Fifth 
peraeopod not much smaller than fourth but with basis shorter. 
Pedunele of uropod with four strong spines on distal half of inner margin; 
it is two and three-fourths times as long as telson and fully half as long again as 
the rami, which are subequal in length, the exopod slightly the longer; first 
