of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 24:7 
somewhat robust, and bears a short plumose seta near the middle of the 
upper margin. A small secondary joint, furnished with two marginal and 
two terminal plumose hairs, springs from the middle of the joint nearly 
opposite the marginal seta. The second joint is about equal in length to 
the first, but considerably narrower (fig. 16). The mandible-palp is small, 
narrow, one-jointed, and furnished with a few short plumose hairs (fig. 
17). In the posterior foot-jaws the first joint is narrow ; the second is 
considerably dilated, and furnished with a strong hooked claw, scarcely 
equal in length to the joint from which it springs. The inner branches 
of the first pair of swimming-feet are elongate and rather slender. The 
second joint is proportionally much longer than it is in several described 
species of Laophonte, being equal to fully one-third of the length of the 
first joint. Terminal claw slender, and only slightly curved. The outer 
branches, which consist of three sub-equal joints, are equal to about half 
the length of the first joint of the inner branches (fig. 19). The inner 
two-jointed branches of the fourth pair extend slightly beyond the end 
of the second joint of the outer branches (fig. 20). The inner portion of 
the basal joints of the fifth pair is produced into a sub-cylindrical lobe, 
obliquely rounded at the end, and provided with four plumose sete 
arranged at nearly equal distances round the lower half and end of the 
inner edge. The secondary joints are small and cyclindrical in form, and 
furnished with five setz on the irregular edge of the truncate apex (fig. 
21). Caudal stylets narrow, and rather longer than the last abdominal 
segment. | 
Male.—The tooth on the under side of the second joint of the male 
anterior antenne is scarcely so large as in the female. The terminal joints 
are modified somewhat like those of the male of Laophonte depressa (fig. 
15). The inner branches of the third pair of thoracic feet are very short, 
and provided with a strong irregularly-curved spiniform appendage (fig. 
21). The inner portion of the basal joints of the fifth pair are not pro- 
duced, but are slightly bilobed, each lobe bearing a single apical seta. 
The secondary joints are somewhat similar to those of the female, but 
rather narrower (fig. 23). The sixth appendage is very small, and 
furnished with two short hairs. 
Halitat.—Off St Monans. Rare. 
Remarks.—The slender form of this species, considered in connection 
with the armature of the anterior antenne, is alone sufficient to enable it 
to be distinguished from others of the same genus. It is unlike any other 
Laophonte known to me, except, perhaps, Laophonte serrata (Claus). 
Laophonte littorale, T. and A. Scott. 
1893. Laophonte littorale, T. and A. Scott, p. 238, pl. xi. figs. 
7-14. 
Description.—Female. Length, ‘85 mm. (35th of an inch). Body 
elongate, sub-cylindrical. Forehead very slightly produced into a bluntly 
rounded rostrum Anterior antennz sparingly setiferous, and composed 
of seven joints ; the third joint is longer and the fifth shorter than any of 
the others. The proportional lengths of all the joints are shown by the 
formula :— 
Secondary branch of posterior antennee rudimentary, and consisting of 
one small joint bearing a small apical seta. Mouth organs nearly as in 
Laophonte curticauda, Boeck. Inner branches of the first thoracic feet 
moderately stout. The second joint is scarcely equal to one-fourth of the 
length of the first, and the terminal claw is stout and hooked at the apex. 
