LAOPHONTE. ras 
(fig. 8) very long, with a long and slender 2-jointed 
peduncle, the margins of which are densely ciliated ; 
outer scarcely one third as Jong as the first joint of 
the inner branch; inner branch stout and strongly 
clawed. Second, third, and fourth pairs shorter, 
slender, outer branches about twice as long as the 
inner, densely ciliated on the external margins ; apical ¥ 
spine of each joint very long and pectinated on the 
edges ; first joint of inner branches very short, second 
long and slender. Basal jot of the fifth foot very 
large (fig. 10); segments much elongated, the outer 
bearing one, the inner four long sete. Length oth of 
an inch (1:3 mm.). 
This remarkable and strongly characterized species 
has been noticed in Britain as yet only on the 
Atlantic coasts of Scotland and the north of Ireland, 
but was found also by the German Polar Expedition in 
the Arctic Sea. Buchholz, in his account of the 
Zoology of that Expedition, refers it to Cyclops minuti- 
cornis, Muller, an identification which certainly cannot 
be accepted, and Mr. Norman in his report on the 
Crustacea, &c., of the “‘ Valorous”’ cruise, proposed — 
for it the specific name horrida, a term which I had 
also myself previously applied to it, though only in 
MS. My collection contains several specimens which 
were dredged off the Island of Cumbrae amongst vege- 
table and other débris, and one from a depth of fifteen 
fathoms off Portincross (Ayrshire). Mr. Norman 
found a single example in material from Oban, and, 
lastly, I have noticed it in material washed from the 
roots and fronds of Laminarie in Mulroy Lough, 
