. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. ADDITIONS TO FAUNA-LIST OF CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA. Length 14, breadth 15 mm. Dull salmon with longitudinal, paler, dark- bordered stripes; chelipeds and legs speckled with red, finger and thumb of chelipeds white. Locality. Delagoa Bay. 1 $ (). Distribution. Persian Gulf, 47-9 fms.; Amirante Is., 28 fms. ? Zanzibar (Lenz). Fam. Hymenosomatidae Hymenosoma orbiculare Desm. Fig- 5- 1950. Barnard, loc cit., p. 68, fig. 150, b. 1951. Capart, Exp. ocean. Beige, p. 61, %. 18. 1955. Broekhuysen,
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. ADDITIONS TO FAUNA-LIST OF CRUSTACEA AND PYCNOGONIDA. Length 14, breadth 15 mm. Dull salmon with longitudinal, paler, dark- bordered stripes; chelipeds and legs speckled with red, finger and thumb of chelipeds white. Locality. Delagoa Bay. 1 $ (). Distribution. Persian Gulf, 47-9 fms.; Amirante Is., 28 fms. ? Zanzibar (Lenz). Fam. Hymenosomatidae Hymenosoma orbiculare Desm. Fig- 5- 1950. Barnard, loc cit., p. 68, fig. 150, b. 1951. Capart, Exp. ocean. Beige, p. 61, %. 18. 1955. Broekhuysen, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., xli, pp. 313-43? text-figs. 1-13 (breeding and growth). Additional localities. Tiger Bay, Angola (Capart); Inhambane, Portuguese East Africa ( 1954). A figure is given here of the speci- mens referred to on pages 70, 71 of my monograph. I am still of opinion that a specific name is not really necessary. The full life-history and ecology of the normal shallow-water form and the ornate form from deeper water should be fully investigated. Fam. Pinnotheridae Gen. Pinnixa White. 1846. White, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xviii, p. 177. 1876. Lockington, Proc. Calif. Ac, vii, p. 55 (Tubicola). 1918. Tesch, Siboga Exp. monogr., xxxix, c. 1, p. 266 (list of species). Commensal in tubes and burrows of Polychaets and Holothurians. Hitherto recorded mostly from the coasts of America. Pinnixa penultipedalis Stmpsn. Fig. 6. 1858. Stimpson, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad., x, p. 108 ($). 1894. Ortmann, £ool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst., vii, p. 695, pi. 23, fig. 7. 1907. Stimpson ed. Rathbun, Smiths. Misc. Coll., xlix, p. 143 (§). Carapace smooth, punctate laterally on the branchial region; very fine tomentum occupying very shallow grooves: one transverse to anterior margin (hepatic), one parallel to antero-lateral margin, and one parallel to postero- Fig. 5. Hymenosoma orbiculare Desm. Carapace of ovigerous $ of the ornate form from deep water in False Bay. See: Barnard, 1950, loc. cit.
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