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Remarks. The outward appearance of the present form is so peculiar 

 that it cannot be confounded with any other member of the family Laophontidce, 

 though there are a few species which exhibit a somewhat similar short and 

 flattened shape of the body, for instance the form described in Vol. V, p. 273 

 as Laophontodes expansus. This form is however otherwise very different. 



Occurence. A single female specimen only of this peculiar form has" 

 hitherto come under my notice. It was found in the bottom residue of a large 

 collecting bottle containing several marine animals taken by Mr. Kjaer in the 

 neighbourhood of Drebak from a depth of about 50 fathoms. The specimen 

 was fully grown, but wanted the ovisacs. 



Distribution. Scottish coast. 



Fam. Cletodidae. 



Gen. Cletodes, Brady. 

 61. Cletodes Sarsi, Scott. 



(PI. L). 



Cletodes Sarsii, Scott ; Twenty-third Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, Part III, 



p. 146, PI. XII, figs. 19. 



Specific Characters. Female. Body very slender and gradually tapered 

 behind, with all the segments sharply marked off from each other. Cephalic 

 segment comparatively large, equalling in length the 3 succeeding segments 

 combined; rostral projection rather prominent and narrowly blunted at the tip. 

 Urosome (including the caudal rami) nearly as long as the anterior division; 

 genital segment not fully attaining the length of the 2 succeeding segments 

 combined, and imperfectly subdivided in the middle; last segment comparatively 

 small, with the anal opercle well marked and perfectly smooth. Caudal rami 

 very slender and narrow, equalling about half the length of the remaining part 

 of the tail, and slightly divergent; outer edge exhibiting at the end of the 

 first Va of its length a well-marked notch, to which are attached 2 somewhat 

 unequal bristles, another small bristle occurring near the end; dorsal seta 

 issuing about in the middle; apical seta rather slender and flanked by 2 small 

 bristles, the outer of which is partly connected with it at the base. Anterior 

 antennae comparatively short and stout, scarcely exceeding half the length of 



