
HALE—AUSTRALIAN CUMACEA 425 

dactylue 
prp.t 
Fig, 48, Dicoides brevidactyla, ovigerous female of New South Wales form; lateral view 
of whole animal (39); ra, rostral siphon (x 60) } ant, first antenna (X95); dactylus 
prp. 1, dactylus of first peraeopod; exop., exopods of first, second and fourth peraeopods (x 95); 
urop., uropod with sixth pleon somite and telson (x 58), , 
are little, if any, larger than those of the third and fourth legs and are less than 
half the length of the exopod of the second leg. 
Loc. New South Wales: 4 miles off Eden, in silt, 70 metres (K. Sheard, 
Oct., 1943). 
Although no eye is apparent in examples preserved in alcohol, it is represented 
by a spot of vivid red pigment in South Australian specimens freshly preserved 
in formalin, 
DIcOIDES FLETTI sp. nov, 
Ovigerous female. Integument calcified, with fine but distinct reticulate 
patterning, and with well-spaced granules on carapace, 
Carapace relatively small, not much more than one-fourth of total length, 
and little longer than pedigerous somites together; seen from above it is widest 
across the branchial regions; its depth is three-fourths its length and is equal 
to greatest breadth; there is an obsolete median carina on the back, while on 
each side a dorso-lateral, horizontal, elongate tumidity runs backwards from the 
pseudorostral lobes for greater part of the length of the carapace; below this 
elevation is a shallow depression ; anterior margin and inferior edge finely serrate. 
Antero-lateral margin a little sinuate, scarcely at all concave, and antero-lateral 
angle widely rounded, serrate. Pseudorostral sutures fused; lobes meeting in 
front of ocular lobe for a distance equal to about one-seventh length of carapace, 
anteriorly widely gaping. 
Pedigerous somites one to three wider than, carapace; the third somite is 
shorter on the dorsum than any of the others, but the pleural parts of second and 
