80 BRITISH COPEPODA. 



5. LAOPHONTE CURTICAUDA, Boeclc, PL LXXIII, figs. 



1518, and PI. LXXVI, 

 figs. 19. 



Laophonte curticauda, Boeck. Oversigt Norges Copepoder, p. 55 



(1864). 



Body rather robust (fig. 1), dorsal angles not much 

 produced, rostrum very short ; caudal segments not 

 much longer than broad, and about as long as the last 

 abdominal ring. Anterior antennae (fig. 2) in the female 

 7-jointed; first three joints much longer than the rest, 

 the following three short and nearly equal, the last some- 

 what longer ; in the male the fourth and fifth joints are 

 swollen, the third very narrow, and the last two form 

 a prehensile claw. The posterior foot-jaw (PI. LXXIII, 

 fig. 16) has an elongated hand, the inner margin of 

 which is convex, terminal claw long and curved. 

 The first foot has a long 2-jointed peduncle (fig. 3) 

 which is ciliated on the outer margin ; the inner 

 branch is stout, the outer slender, 3- jointed and more 

 than half the length of the first joint of the inner 

 branch. The outer branches of the second, third, and 

 fourth pairs are stout and fringed with spine-like cilia, 

 the marginal spines long and rather slender ; inner 

 branches stout and 2-jointed (PL LXXIII, fig. 17, 

 and PL LXXYI, figs. 4 and 6). In the male the inner 

 branch of the second pair (fig. 18) has three long 

 terminal setse, and one much shorter seta, which ends 

 in a strong hook ; the third pair (PL LXXVI, fig. 5) 

 has both branches very thick, the second joint of the 



