86 BRITISH COPEPODA. 



second, third and fourth pairs of feet (figs. 8, 9), with 

 the outer branch long and 3 -jointed, the inner very 

 short and 2-jointed ; fifth pair (fig. 10) rather narrow 

 and elongated, the two laminae being of nearly equal 

 length, with finely ciliated margins, and a few short 

 setae. Caudal segments (fig. 11) very broad, rounded ; 

 surface hispid towards the margins ; terminal setae 

 very short, the longest not much exceeding the length 

 of the segment itself. Length -^-th of an inch 

 (73 mm.). 



Several specimens of L. hispida were taken in the 

 surface-net in Westport Bay by Mr. Robertson and 

 myself. We have also dredged it sparingly in a depth 

 of from four to ten fathoms off the Durham coast, and 

 more abundantly on a bed of fine clean gravel off 

 Glen Sannox, Arran (N.B.), off the islands of Bute 

 Cumbrae, in depths of ten to twenty fathoms amongst 

 the Scilly Islands, and off Port Dinlleyn, Caernarvon- 

 shire. 



The general habit of this species is very distinct 

 from all others of the genus, and I was at first induced, 

 more on this account than from any very marked 

 peculiarities of structure, to consider it as a distinct 

 generic type ; but further investigation revealing no 

 points of structure materially different from those 

 belonging to the various species of Laophonte, I have 

 here assigned it to that genus. 



