260 



Mai, with tin- -?nd p:iir of 1' arcely larger than in female, hut 



having one of tin- marginal M-t;o ot' the inner ramus remarkably transformed, 

 con-Ming it' a thickish and some\\hat nodulose hasal part and a thin apical 

 bristle. .'!nl |>air nf h-g> with the inner ranius transformed in the usual manner, 

 outer ramus nearly as in the female. List pair of legs very small, with no ex- 

 pansion inside the proximal joint. 



Colour yellowish. 



Length of adult female (i.oi) mm. 



/.' //"'//-. -This form is nearly allied to the 3 preceding species, but is of 

 smaller -i/e than any of them, and moreover distinguished by its very narrow 

 bod\. the unusually coarse integuments, and above all by the much more produced 

 caudal rami. 



Occurrence. 1 ha\e occasionally met with this small species off the south 

 coast of Norway, at Kisor. Lillesand and Farsund. in moderate depths among 

 alira-. A simple specimen was also found in a sample taken by Mr. Nordgaard 

 in the Salten Fjord. north of the Arctic Circle. 



Polar islands north of Grinnell Land (2nd Fram-Expedition). 



171. Laophonte Nordgaardi, G. 0. Sars, n. sp. 



(PI. CLXXX). 



s/,,,-<fir r/M/v/r/,r.s. -l^-Hiiil,-. liody comparatively short and stout, tapering 

 only slightly behind. Integuments not very coarse. Cephalic segment comparatively 

 lar_ Ceding in length the I succeeding segments combined; rostral projection 



rather prominent and obtusely pointed at the tip. Urosome much shorter than 

 the anterior di\isi<m and having the lateral expansions of the segments rather 

 prominent. Caudal rami short, being scarcely twice as long as they are broad. 

 and considerably divergent, apical seta- of moderate length. Anterior antenna' 

 rather large, but compos,., 1 of only H articulations, the last -2 being confluent: 

 -?nd joint much the lar-eM. and without an\ projection behind. Posterior antenna* 

 with the outer ramiis normalh developed. Posterior maxillipeds \rr\ powerful. 

 \~\ pair of leg-* with the outer ramiis d ist iiid 1 y M-art iculate. and sonie\\hat exceed- 

 ing half the length of the proximal joint of the inner. Natatory legs with the 

 number of -et;e on both rami -omeuliai reduced. Last pair of legs \\ ith the distal 

 joint comparati\ ely small, narrow oval in form, and provided with only -I set;e. 

 the apical one much the Longest; inner expansion of proximal joint triangular in 

 form, and extending to about the middle of the distal joint, marginal sela- -I in 

 number, all ot nearly eijual length. 



