78 BRITISH COPEPODA. 



4. LAOPHONTE SIMILTS, Glaus. PL LXXV, figs. 1 14. 



Cleta similis, Glaus. Die Copepoden- Fauna von Nizza, p. 23, t. v, 



figs. 13, 14 (1866). 

 ? forcipata, Norman. Last Shetland Dredging Report, p. 296 



(1868). 



Body slender (fig. 1) ; head rounded in front and 

 united with the first thoracic segment, dorsal angles 

 of the segments not produced, posterior margins finely 

 aculeate ; caudal segments about twice and a half as 

 long as broad, and longer than the last abdominal 

 joint ; setas finely ciliated, the inner one about as long 

 as the entire animal, the outer less than half as long. 

 Anterior antennaD (fig. 2) 8-jointed, the first three 

 joints long, the rest short and subequal ; in the male 

 the fourth joint forms a corrugated, pear-shaped 

 swelling (fig. 4), the last two joints being slender, and 

 together making a strongly curved claw. The man- 

 dible-palp is very small (fig. 5), but has a minute 

 lateral branch. The hand of the posterior foot-jaw 

 (fig. 8) is convex on the outer margin, and moderately 

 robust. Outer branch of the first pair of feet (fig. 9) 

 half as long as the first joint of the inner branch ; in 

 the male the inner branch of the second pair (fig. 10) 

 is 3- jointed, the second joint having an apical spine, 

 the last joint four, long, plumose seta3. The fifth pair 

 in the female (fig. 11) has a large basal joint, the inner 

 portion of which is much elongated, and bears inter- 

 nally four strong setaB ; the second joint is oblong, sub- 

 ovate, with five long setas on the outer margin, two of 



