70 BEIT1SH COPEPODA. 



on weeds at low-water -mark, St. Mary's, Scilly; in 

 surface-net at Cumbrae (Firth of Clyde) ; dredged in 

 fifteen fathoms, Portincross (Ayrshire) ; on weeds at 

 Hillswick, Shetland (Rev. A. M. Norman). 



Genus 18. LAOPHONTB, Philippi (1840). 



(Laophonte, Philippi, Archiv fur Naturgescbichte, 1840. Cleta, 

 Claus, Die frei-lebenden Copepoden, 1863. Asdlopsis, 

 B. & R., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1873.) 



Body elongated, slender, hinder margins of the 

 segments usually fringed with fine teeth or serra- 

 tures. Anterior antennae 4 8-jointed; secondary 

 branch of the posterior pair small, 1 -jointed. Man- 

 dible-palp small, 1- jointed, or with a rudimen- 

 tary second branch. Maxillse strongly aculeate 

 and provided with a well-developed digitate palp. 

 First pair of foot-jaws strong, subtriangular, with 

 three or four setiferous marginal digits ; second pair 

 forming a slender clawed hand. First pair of feet 

 elongated, slender ; outer branch not more than half 

 the length of the inner, composed of two or three 

 joints and terminating in two or three slender setge ; 

 inner branch elongated, 2-jointed ; the first joint 

 excessively long, second short and bearing a long 

 movable claw at the apex. The second, third, and 

 fourth pairs have the outer branch composed of three, 

 the inner of two joints, except in some cases where 

 the inner branches of the second and third pairs in the 

 male are three-jointed and formed as in Harp actions. 



