. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. SOUTH AFRICAN PYCNOGONIDA 143 Body and abdomen each about 1-5, proboscis 3, leg (without claw) 7-5 mm. Localities'. Liideritzbucht (Hodgson); Gape Point Lighthouse (Loman); Sea Point, Cape Town, littoral (K. H. Barnard, 1912, 1914, 1919); False Bay, 12 fath.; Port Elizabeth, East London (S. Afr. Mus.). Remarks. There can be no doubt that Loman's specimen is the adult of Hodgson's species, who stated that both his specimens were immature. As Hodgson said, the spinose nature of the animal was sufficien
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. SOUTH AFRICAN PYCNOGONIDA 143 Body and abdomen each about 1-5, proboscis 3, leg (without claw) 7-5 mm. Localities'. Liideritzbucht (Hodgson); Gape Point Lighthouse (Loman); Sea Point, Cape Town, littoral (K. H. Barnard, 1912, 1914, 1919); False Bay, 12 fath.; Port Elizabeth, East London (S. Afr. Mus.). Remarks. There can be no doubt that Loman's specimen is the adult of Hodgson's species, who stated that both his specimens were immature. As Hodgson said, the spinose nature of the animal was sufficiently characteristic to justify describing a new species even on such material. vV^-U. Fig. 27. Nymphopsis cuspidata (Hodgson), a. spine from cruriger and dorsal surface of 1st coxa. b. pedunculate spine from leg. c. lateral view of 2nd coxa of leg $. d. apex of 2nd coxa of 1st and 2nd legs <$. e. 2nd and 3rd coxae and femur of 4th leg c?, with apex of 2nd coxa, and femoral cement gland further enlarged. /. propodus and claw of leg. He correctly remarked that the 'branched' spines were really cuticular prolongations bearing one or more movable spines. They should not be called 'compound spines' (Loman) or 'pinnate spines' (Flynn), at least not in this species; in korotnewi Schimk. the armature of the legs does appear (Loman, 1908. loc. cit., pi. 13, fig. 179) to be composed of pinnate spines. The spiny armature of the animals collects much foreign matter; unencum- bered specimens are rare, and dirty ones are difficult to clean. Loman described the proboscis as 'slender', but this adjective is scarcely applicable to the present specimens. The $ from False Bay has the proboscis shorter than the chelifers and quite invisible in dorsal view; also the medio-dorsal processes on the body are very much elevated, their height (excluding the apical spine) almost equal to the length of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been d
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