. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION 193 Rami of first four pairs of legs 3-segmented; fifth legs uniramose. 2-segmented, distal segment sword-shaped, with stout spines at its tip. One species found here. ALTEUTHA DEPRESSA Baird FiGXJRE 128 Alteutha depressa Baikd, Trans. Berwickshire Nat. Club, vol. 2, p. 155, 1845.— Sabs, Crustacea of Norway, vol. 5, p. G4, pi. 38, 1904. Occurrence.—Three females were obtained in a surface tow inside of Monomoy Island, Cape Cod, August, 1882. Distrihution.—British Isles (Brady, Baird) ; coast of France (Canu)
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. COPEPODS OF THE WOODS HOLE REGION 193 Rami of first four pairs of legs 3-segmented; fifth legs uniramose. 2-segmented, distal segment sword-shaped, with stout spines at its tip. One species found here. ALTEUTHA DEPRESSA Baird FiGXJRE 128 Alteutha depressa Baikd, Trans. Berwickshire Nat. Club, vol. 2, p. 155, 1845.— Sabs, Crustacea of Norway, vol. 5, p. G4, pi. 38, 1904. Occurrence.—Three females were obtained in a surface tow inside of Monomoy Island, Cape Cod, August, 1882. Distrihution.—British Isles (Brady, Baird) ; coast of France (Canu); Norwegian coast (Sars) ; Chesapeake Bay (Wilson) ; Sheepshead Bay, Woods Hole (Sharpe). Color.—Bod}^ olive-yellow with a dark purple transverse band occupying the first three thoracic segments. The tips of the ap- pendages are also frequently tinged with purple; the yellow portions are fairly transparent, but the dark band is nearly opaque; eye red tinged with purple. Female.—B o d y strongly de- pressed, widest at about the center, head fused with first segment, the two longer than the rest of the metasome; posterior corners of fifth segment angular; eye con- siderably back of the anterior mar- gin; urosome short and broad, each of its segments produced at its posterior corners into conical points; metasome segments with lateral epimeral plates; caudal rami quadrangular, slightly longer than wide, their terminal setae short and weak. First antennae 9-segmented; exopod of second antennae 2-seg- mented, with 4 setae; endopod of first legs almost as long as exopod and much widened; fifth legs 2-segmented, proximal segment slightly enlarged, with five inner setae, distal segment conically tapered and tipped with three coarse spines. Total length, mm. Male.—Unknown. Remarks.—This is a littoral rather than a pelagic species and is nowhere found in abundance. Sars gave it as preferring a sandy or gravelly bottom in comparatively shallow water. Sharpe was the.
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