
430 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
Third maxilliped with basis not a great deal shorter than rest of limb; carpus 
longer than any other of remaining joints; propodus and dactylus of equal length. 
Basis of peraeopods with long setae which hold a dense matting of flocculent 
material. First leg, when extended, with carpus reaching beyond antennal. angle, 
and dactylus beyond level of front of pseudorostrum; basis half as long as 
remainder of limb, its distal end encireled with stout teeth; propodus subequal 
in length to carpus and one-fourth as long again as dactylus. 


Fig, 51. Allodiastylis hirtipes, type female; lateral view and 
cephalothorax from above (X 36). 
Second peraeopod short (not much more than one-third as long as first) with 
the narrow basis equal in length to rest of limb and spinose on inner margin; 
ischium suppressed; merus longer than carpus or propodus, which are subequal 
in length, each barely more than half as long as dactylus. 
Basis of third peraeopod as long as remaining joints combined, that of fourth 
distinctly shorter, in third half as long; merus of third and fourth pairs about 
as long as carpus and propodus combined; carpus with two distal setae, subequal 
in length and, like propodal seta, reaching a little beyond level of tip of dactylus, 
which is long and slender. 
