86 BRITISH COPEPODA. 
second, third and fourth pairs of feet (figs. 8, 9), with 
the outer branch long and 8-jointed, the inner very 
short and 2-jointed; fifth pair (fig. 10) rather narrow 
and elongated, the two laminz being of nearly equal 
length, with finely ciliated margins, and a few short 
sete. Caudal segments (fig. 11) very broad, rounded ; 
suriace hispid towards the margins; terminal setze 
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. 
