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Males. Very small. Body globular, and more imper- 

 fect than in the preceding tribes, having no distinct thorax, 

 and no rudiments of feet behind the appendages which 

 represent the foot-jaws. 



Family 1 PENELLAD.E. 

 LERNEOCERIENS (pars), M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., iii. 



Character. Several pairs of feet situated on the under 

 surface of the body near the head, but very small and 

 rudimentary. 



Genus LERNEONEMA. 



LERN^EA, Sowerby, British Miscellany. 



Blainville, Turtou's British Fauna. 

 LERNEOCERA, Blainville, Journ. Phys., xcv. 

 LERNEOPENNA, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Philad., iii. 

 LERNEONEMA, M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., iii, 524. 



Character. Body long, slender, narrowed anteriorly 

 in the form of a neck, which is terminated by a swollen 

 head, furnished with two or three simple, curved, horn- 

 shaped appendages. Abdominal portion of body of in- 

 considerable length, and simple. Oviferous tubes long 

 and slender. 



History. The genus Lerneonema was established by 

 M. Edwards, in his ' Hist. Nat. Crust/ (iii), to receive 

 some species of Lerneadse, resembling considerably the 

 Pennatula of Linnaeus (Penella, Oken), but which are 

 destitute of the peculiar plumose abdomen which charac- 

 terises distinctly this latter genus. 



Baker seems to have known a species belonging to the 

 genus, and describes it as British, in the ' Philosophical 

 Transactions' for 1744. He calls it the " Eye-sucker," and 

 says " it was found fixed by the snout to the eyes of a sprat." 

 His figure is very bad, and no doubt difficult to be recog- 

 nised. We must remember, however, that in removing 



