74 BRITISH COPEPODA. 



2. LAOPHONTE HORRIDA, Norman. PI. LXXIV, figs. 



111. 



Cleta minuticomis, Buchholz. Die zweite deutsche Nordpolar- 

 fahrt in den Jahren 1869 und 1870, p. 393, 

 pi. xv, fig. 3. 



horrida, Norman. Report of the " Valorous " Expedition, 

 p. 206 (Proceedings of the Royal Society), 1876. 



Female. Body elongated ; head separate from 

 thorax ; rostrum long and sharp ; dorsum strongly 

 jagged and spinous ; as seen from behind, rounded with 

 two sharp lateral angles (figs. 1, 2), the cephalic seg- 

 ment being produced in the median line into one 

 very large backward projecting spine (figs. 1 and 2), 

 the thoracic and first two abdominal segments each 

 having two spines ; first and second abdominal seg- 

 ments produced also into lateral angular spines and 

 marginally ciliated ; posterior margins of the seg- 

 ments denticulated (fig. 11) ; caudal segments about 

 twice as long as broad, rather longer than the last abdo- 

 minal segment, carrying one stout apical seta about two 

 thirds the length of the body, one much smaller and 

 very slender, and three very small external lateral 

 setaB near the apex. Anterior antennae slender, 

 longer than the cephalic segment, 6-jointed, second 

 and third joints long and nearly equal, last three joints 

 short ; the comparative lengths being as follows : 



1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 



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Second foot-jaw (fig. 7), long and slender, hand elon- 

 gated and scarcely at all dilated. First pair of feet 



