METAPROTELLA SANDALENSIS, n. sp. 



By Dr PAUL MAYER. 



The Caprellidae which I recently received from Mr A. Willey, who requested me to 

 describe them, all belong to the same species. There are 9 males, 5 females and 2 young 

 individuals. Unfortunately almost all the legs had fallen off and the flagella of the superior 

 antennae were broken. 



The largest male measured fully 9 mm., not including legs and antennae; the 

 flagellum of the superior antenna, so far as it was present, had 11 segments. 



Fig. 1. 



The species is new and belongs to the genus Metaprotella, Mayer (Mayer, Die 

 Caprelliden des Golfes von Neapel, Nachtrag, 1890, p. 24). It may be named sandalensis 

 after the place in which it was found, namely, Sandal Bay, Lifu. 



Apart from the character of the mouth-parts, the most distinctive feature of the 

 genus Metaprotella is the fusion of the last thoracic segment with the preceding segment 

 (Fig. 1). In the arrangement of the spines, this species closely resembles M. haswelliana ; 



w. 8 



