no. 1758 o\ MARINE COPEPODA \.ND CLADOCERA. SHARPE. 421 



Male. Ajiterior antennas prehensile. Fifth legs as in fig. 14a. 



Occurrence. — Collected with birge net among algae, Eel Pond, 

 Woods Hole, August . 



Distribution.— British Isles (Brady); Mediterranean (Clans): coast 

 of Bohiisland (Cleve); Wickford and Charlestown Pond (Williams); 

 Liverpool Hay (Thompson). 



Family LAOPIIONTHXE. 

 Genus LAOPHONTE Philippi, 1840. 



LAOPHONTE LONGICAUDATA Boeck. 



Laophonte longicaudata Boeck, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiana, L864, p. 271). — Brady 

 Copepoda of the British Islands, vol. 2, L880, p. 82, figs. 1 10. < i . 0. Sars, 

 Crustacea of Norway, vol. 5, 1903, p. 243, pi. 164. 



Length.— Female, 0.73 mm.. 



Characters. — Body of whitish color, with three light orange trans- 

 verse bands, the first across the cephalic segment, 

 the second occupying the posterior part of the 

 genital segment, the liircl the anal segment.. 



Body of female rather slender, with long and 

 slender caudal rami, which equal in length the last 

 two segments combined, and extend straight be- 

 hind. Anterior- antennas about half the length of 



o rIG. 15. — l;AOPHOME 



the cephalic segment, and seven-segmented. Fifth longicaudata. «. fifth 

 pair of legs of the female small, distal segment ^Th foot o^male. & ' 

 narrow, oval in form, with a straight inner edge, 

 also five terminal setae. Inner expansion of proximal segment short 

 and broad (fig. 15a), with five marginal setae, the apical one the 

 longest. Male, fifth leg as in fig. 15&. 



Occurrence. — Collected with a. birge net just oil' the Bureau of 

 Fisheries wharf, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, duly. 



Distribution. — British seas (Brady); Norwegian coast (Sars); 

 Franz Josef Land (Scott). Not heretofore reported from the western 

 Atlantic. 



Family LICIIOMOLCil D.K. 



Genus LtCHOMOLGUS Thorell, 18S9. 



LICHOMOLGUS FUCICOLUS Brady. 



Dichomolgtis fudcolus Brady, Copepoda of the British Islands, vol. 2, isxo, ]>. 41, 

 pi. 85, figs. I II. Thompson, Trans. Liverpool Biol, Soc, vol. 7, L893, p. 

 :;::, figs. I 3. 



Length. Female, 1.3 nun.; male, 1 mm. 



Characters. Color dark brown. Free swimming. Second antenna 

 (fig. Kir/) three-segmented, bearing a few marginal seta 1 , and at the 

 apex of the third segment four long and one short seta, and a most 



