with ."S siiuihii- setae. <>\isacs oval pyriform in shape, and projecting on each side 



>nd the lateral edges of the urosoine. 

 ( '.ilmir nut yei a-certained. 

 Length (if adult female ll.Hti nun. 



Remarks. Tin- Conn was described by I'oppe in the above-quoted paper 



as the type of a ne\\ Copepod-genus, hut its systematic plan- within the group 

 Harpacticoida n.-is not discussed |>y tliat author. Th. Scott, in his List of Crus- 

 tacea of the Clyde area, places it next to PlatychelipUS lilt'ii'iil,* l'>rady. It i- 

 an easily recognisable form, which cannot be confounded with any of the other 

 Earpacticoida. 



Occurren -The only place \\liere I have met with this peculiar Copepod. 

 is in the immediate neighbourhood of Trondhjem, '2 or .'> female specimens having 

 iteen taken there, many years ago, from shallow tidal pools on the flat, sandy 

 headi east of the town. Canon A. M. Norman has kindly sent me some specimen- 

 taken I iy him. apparently in the \ei\v same place. 



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Distribution. 3 &&e Bay, on the North Sea coast of Germany il'oppe). 

 >cotti-h coast (Scott i. 



Gen. 65. NannOpUS, Hr;ily. L880. 



S\n: 



Generic ('linr<ict<i*. Body comparatively stout, with no sharply marked 

 boundary between the anterior and posterior divisions, all the segments sharply 

 marked nil from each other. Cephalic segment large, and produced in front to 

 a lamellar ro-tral projection not defined behind. I'rosome tapered behind, with 

 the gniital -eminent in female distinctly subdivided, Caudal rami comparatively 

 narrow, \\ith one of the apical seta 1 very strong, -pinitoriu. Anterior antenna' 

 short and thick. .">-art iciilate and thickly clothed with coarse diverging seta 1 . 

 Posterior antenna- strongly built and armed at the tip with strong claw-like spines, 

 outer ramii- short, uniarticiilar. attached near the end of the proximal joint Oral 



part- -omewhat resembling in structure those in the neim- Huntemannia. Natatory 

 't and stunt, \\ith the outer ramiis distinctly triarticulate. inner ramus 

 much slmrter than the outer, and in the .'{ anterior pairs Inarticulate, in the 1th 

 pair \ei\ -mall, uniart icidate : 1 -t pair only -lightlv diffi-ring in structure from 

 the -2 -iiceeedin- pairs. I,a-t pair of leg-, with the distal joint small, in some 



