19 BRITISH COPEPODA. 
4. LaorHonte stminrs, Claus. Pl. LXXV, figs. 1—14. 
Cleta similis, Claus. Die Copepoden-Fauna von Nizza, p. 23, t. v, 
_ figs. 13, 14 (1866). 
? — forcipata, Norman. Last Shetland Dredging Report, p. 296 
(1868). 
Body slender (fig. 1); head rounded in front and 
united with the first thoracic segment, dorsal angles 
of the segments not produced, posterior margins finely 
aculeate; caudal segments about twice and a half as 
long as broad, and longer than the last abdominal 
joint ; setee finely ciliated, the inner one about as long 
as the entire animal, the outer less than half as long. 
Anterior antenne (fig. 2) 8-jointed, the first three 
joints long, the rest short and subequal; in the male 
the fourth joimt forms a corrugated, pear-shaped 
swelling (fig. 4), the last two joints being slender, and 
together making a strongly curved claw. The man- 
dible-palp is very small (fig. 5), but has a minute 
lateral branch. The hand of the posterior foot-jaw 
(fig. 8) is convex on the outer margin, and moderately 
robust. Outer branch of the first pair of feet (fig. 9) 
half as long as the first joint of the inner branch; in 
the male the inner branch of the second pair (fig. 10) 
is 3-jointed, the second joint having an apical spine, 
the last joint four, long, plumose sete. The fifth pair 
in the female (fig. 11) has a large basal joint, the inner 
portion of which is much elongated, and bears inter- 
nally four strong seta; the second joint is oblong, sub- 
ovate, with five long seta on the outer margin, two of 3 
