. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OP THE "WOODS HOLE REGION 273 LAOPHONTE STROMII (Baird) Figure 169 Catithocamptus sPromli Baird, The natural history of the British Entomostraca, p. 208, pi. 27, figs. 3, 3a, 1850. Laophonte striimi Saes, Crustacea of Norway, vol. 5, p. 251, pis. 171, 172, 1908. Occurrence.—Thirty specimens, including both sexes, were ob- tained from Penzance Pond, Woods Hole, August, 1925; found in smaller numbers in one of the brackish ponds on Chappaquiddick Island, in Quisset Pond, Falmouth, the Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Great Pond, Falmouth, a
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OP THE "WOODS HOLE REGION 273 LAOPHONTE STROMII (Baird) Figure 169 Catithocamptus sPromli Baird, The natural history of the British Entomostraca, p. 208, pi. 27, figs. 3, 3a, 1850. Laophonte striimi Saes, Crustacea of Norway, vol. 5, p. 251, pis. 171, 172, 1908. Occurrence.—Thirty specimens, including both sexes, were ob- tained from Penzance Pond, Woods Hole, August, 1925; found in smaller numbers in one of the brackish ponds on Chappaquiddick Island, in Quisset Pond, Falmouth, the Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Great Pond, Falmouth, and Nashaquitsa Pond, Marthas Vineyard. Distribution.—British Isles (Baird, Brady); Franz Josef Land (T. Scott) ; coast of Norway (Sars) ; Adriatic (Carazzi, Gran- dori, Pesta). Color.—Pale yellowish white and quite transparent, without pigment markings; eggs white, each with a minute red dot at its cen- ter; eye dull red. Feniale.—Body slender, four times as long as wide, tapered posteriorly; cephalic seg- ment nearly as long as the rest of the meta- some, the second, third, and fourth segments as wide as the head, the fifth segment con- siderably narrower; urosome two-thirds as long as metasome, the last two segments of abdomen of equal length; caudal rami twice as long as wide, squarely truncated at the tip, apical seta two-thirds as long as the whole body. First antennae 7-segmented, two basal segments enlarged; exopod of second antenna minute, 1- segmented, attached to side of basal endopod segment. Basal endo- pod segment of first legs stout, fringed with long hairs on both margins; first exopod 3-segmented, end segment with two apical geniculate setae and two outer spines. Fifth legs of moderate size; distal segment as wide as long, much narrowed at its base, with six very unequal setae, the second inner one filiform and much the longest; basal expansion reaching beyond the center of the distal segment, with five setae, the middle one the longest. Total length, 0.
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