LAOPHONTE. 83 



In the male, the antenna is clawed, as in L. curticauda. 

 The outer branch of the first foot (fig. 12) is very 

 short, the inner long and slender ; the second foot-jaw 

 is smaller, but otherwise does not differ much from 

 that of the preceding species ; the inner branches of 

 the second, third, and fourth pairs (figs. 13, 14) have 

 the first joints longer than in curticauda. The third 

 foot in the male (Plate LXXIY, fig. 13) is only mode- 

 rately spinous, but the inner branch is 3-jointed, and 

 has a slender spine attached to the apex of the second 

 joint. Fifth foot (fig. 14) small, having both inner and 

 outer segments well developed, the inner having four 

 marginal setse, the outer one large apical, and several 

 minute marginal seta3; second joint elongate, ovate, 

 5-setose. Length y^rd of an inch ('77 mm.). 



This species was met with in dredged material 

 from several places off the Durham coast : Hartle- 

 pool ; Seaham, twenty to thirty fathoms ; Hawthorn, 

 twenty-seven fathoms. I have found a few examples 

 among Copepoda washed from weeds in Ventry Bay, 

 Ireland, and sent to me by Mr. E. C. Davison. 



7. LAOPHONTE LAMELLIFEEA, Glaus. PL LXXV, figs. 



1523. 



Cleta lamellifera, Glaus. Die frei-lebenden Copepoden, p. 123, 

 "t. xv, figs. 21 25(1863). 



Body robust (fig. 15), arcuate ; rostrum short, 



the antennse are only 7-jointed the variation takes place in the flagellum 

 or slender terminal portion, which then has three instead of four articu- 

 lations. 



