48 BRITISH COPEPODA. 



Genus 13. CANTHOOAMPTUS, Westwood (1836). 



Posterior antenna 2- jointed, and having a small 1- or 

 2-jointed branch attached to the basal joint ; mandible- 

 palp small, composed of one branch ; second foot-jaw 

 slender, and forming a prehensile clawed hand. Inner 

 branch of the first pair of feet 3-jointed, elongated, 

 and flexed at the median joint ; of the second, third, 

 and fourth pairs 2- or 3-jointed. 



1. CANTHOCAMPTUS MINTJTUS (Miiller). PL XLIV, figs. 



117. 



(Not C. minutus. Glaus. Die frei-lebenden Copepoden, p. 122.) 



Cyclops minutus, O. F. Miiller. Zool. Dan. Prodr. (1776). En- 



tomostraca, p. 101, pi. xvii, figs. 17 (1785). 

 Monoculus staphylinus, Jurine. Hist, des Monocles, p. 74, pis. vii, 



figs. 119 (1820). 

 Cyclopsina M. Edwards. Nat. Hist. Crust., iii, p. 428 



(1840). 



Canthocamptus minutus, Lilljeborg. De Crustaceis ex ordinibus 

 tribus, t. xiv, figs. 7 12 ; t. xv, 

 figs. 1317 ; t. xvi, figs. 15 (1853). 

 Baird. British Entomostraca, p. 204, 

 t. xxv, figs. 4 8, and t. xxx, fig. 3 

 (1850). 



? Uljanin. Reise in Turkestan (Crus- 

 tacea), p. 26, pi, vii, figs. 1, 2 (1875). 

 staphylinus, Fric. Die Krustenthiere Bohmens, 



p. 224, fig. 21 (1871). 



Claus. Die frei-lebenden Copepoden, 



p. 121, pi. xii, figs. 4 14 ; pi. xiii, 

 figs. 1, 3, 4 (1863). 



Female. Body slender, elongated, not much con- 

 stricted between thorax and abdomen, straight during 



