94 



C. CHILTON. 



Fig. lfi. Phreatoicus shephardi, 

 second gnathopod of female. 



Fig. 17- Phreatoicus shephirdi, seventh, 

 peraeopod. 



16; the second, third and 

 fourth pairs of legs are sub- 

 equal, and all somewhat 

 longer and more powerful 

 than the gnathopod; the fifth, 

 sixth and seventh increase 

 regularly in length; the 

 seventh is shown in fig. 17. 



Some of the females bear 

 eggs in the brood pouch which 

 is formed of plates correspond- 

 ing apparently to the first, 

 second, third and fourth ap- 

 pendages of the peraeon ; in 

 one specimen examined there 

 were about a dozen eggs. 



This species, as 

 already pointed out 

 by Sayce, is pretty 

 nearly allied to P. 

 australis, but differs 

 in the absence of 

 eyes, in the character 

 of the spines on the 

 uropods, and in a few 

 details of the mouth 

 parts. Other species 

 of the genus occur in 

 Australia, Tasmania 

 and NewZealand,and 

 another, P. capensis 

 Barnard, 1 has re- 

 cently been described 



from Oape Colony, South Africa. 



1 K. H. Barnard, Annals South African Museum, vol. 10, p. 231, 



