LAOPHONTE. 85 



Swilly (Donegal), and from dredgings made in Ventry 

 Bay by Mr. E.G. Davison ; also from weed- washings 

 at Tobermory (Rev. A. M. Norman). 



8. LAOPHONTE HISPIDA, Brady and Robertson. PL 



LXXXI, figs. 111. 



Asellopsis hispida, B. & B. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xii, 



p. 137, pi. ix, figs. 610 (1873). 



Body elongated, much depressed (fig. 1), lower 

 thoracic segments distinctly narrowed, the margins of 

 the first three abdominal segments produced down- 

 wards at the sides in an imbricated manner. Anterior 

 antennae (fig. 2) short, densely setose, 7-jointed, first 

 two joints not much longer than broad, third about 

 the same length but much narrower, fourth very short 

 and broad, fifth about twice as long as the fourth, 

 sixth and seventh equal and very small, the propor- 

 tionate lengths of the joints, beginning at the base, 

 being as follows 9, 9, 9, 3, 5, 2, 2 ; posterior antennae 

 nearly as large as the anterior, biarticulate, bearing a 

 very small 1 -jointed secondary branch. Mouth-appa- 

 ratus as in the typical Laophonte; second pair of maxilli- 

 peds (fig. 6) 3- jointed, with an oval hand and long slender 

 claw. First pair of feet (fig. 7) having the inner 

 branch very long and biarticulate, the first joint much 

 elongated, terminal claw thick and strong ; outer 

 branch also biarticulate, the entire length being less 

 than half that of the first joint of the inner branch ; 



