
380 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
Third maxilliped wide, the basis more than one-third as broad as long, and 
equal in length to rest of appendage; ischium and merus shorter than any of the 
other joints, but merus unusually wide, expanded externally; propodus a little 
longer than carpus and half as long again as dactylus. 
First peraeopod short, the carpus not quite reaching level of apex of pseudo- 
rostrum ; basis almost as long as rest of limb and with a couple of inner distal 
spines; carpus long, more than half length of basis, and more than twice as long 
as the short and broad propodus; dactylus with long terminal setae but itself very 

Fig. 15. Gynodiastylis subtilix, type female; mxp. and prp., third maxilliped and first to 
third peracopods (X 60; propodel seta, and dactylus with its elaw and seta, X 230); urop., 
uropod with fifth and sixth pleon somites, and telson, ventral aspect ( 60); tels., ventral yiew 
of postanal part of telson (X 115), 
short, not much more than one-third as long as propodus, which bears a dozen 
setae, like those of dactylus very long. 
Second peraeopod robust; basis serrate on inner edge and as long as rest. of 
limb; ischium distinet, with a small inner spine; carpus two-thirds as long again 
as merus, which is as long as the short, subequal, propodus and dactylus together ; 
marginal setae of the limb are long but terminal setae of dactylus are short. 
Third to fifth peraeopods relatively long, the third and fourth exceeding the 
second leg in length; the merus is twice as long as carpus and propodus together ; 
the longest distal carpal seta, immediately preceding the usual shorter and stouter 
seta, extends well beyond apex of dactylus, as does also the propodal seta; dactylus 
with separated ¢law, at base of which is a seta (see dactylus, in fig. 15), 
