70 BRITISH COPEPODA. 
on weeds at low-water-mark, St. Mary’s, Scilly; in 
surface-net at Cumbrae (Firth of Clyde); dredged in 
fifteen fathoms, Portincross (Ayrshire) ; on weeds at 
Hillswick, Shetland (Rev. A. M. Norman). 
Genus 18. LaopHonts, Philippi (1840). 
(Laophonte, Philippi, Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, 1840. Cleta, 
Claus, Die frei-lebenden. Copepoden, 1863. Asellopsis, 
B. & R., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1873.) 
Body elongated, slender, hinder margins of the 
segments usually fringed with fine teeth or serra- 
tures. Anterior antenne 4—8-jointed; secondary 
branch of the posterior pair small, l-jointed. Man- 
dible-palp small, 1-jointed, or with a rudimen- 
tary second branch. Maxille strongly aculeate 
and provided with a well-developed digitate palp. 
First pair of foot-jaws strong, subtriangular, with 
three or four setiferous marginal digits; second pair 
forming a slender clawed hand. First pair of feet 
elongated, slender ; outer branch not more than half 
the length of the inner, composed of two or three 
joints and terminating in two or three slender sete; 
inner branch elongated, 2-jointed; the first joint 
excessively long, second short and bearing a long 
movable claw at the apex. The second, third, and 
fourth pairs have the outer branch composed of three, 
the inner of two joints, except in some cases where 
the inner branches of the second and third pairs in the : 
male are three-jointed and formed as in Harpacticus. 
