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mark any locality on it. A few months ago Mr. Atkinson called my 

 attention to the circumstances connected with this specimen ; and on 

 examining it, I very soon became convinced, that it was truly a na- 

 tive inhabitant, and that it had in reality lived on the coast of Shet- 

 land, inasmuch as there were positive evidences that it had grown 

 on the upper valve of a Crania anomala, or the celUferous surface of a 

 Retepora Beaniana (which proved that the latter had not grown on 

 it), and on pebbles identical with some in the museum that had been 

 procured by Dr. Charlton in Shetland, and to which the same species 

 of Crania and the same species of Retepora are attached. 



Dr. Johnston has noticed the specimen in the 2nd edition of his 

 * British Zoophytes ; ' but as nothing is mentioned proving its loca- 

 lity, I have deemed it necessary to state these particulars. 



William King. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne Museum, March 17, 1847. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF PENELLA. 



*' In lat. 11° 54' S., long. 27° W., I found a new and remarkable 

 parasite belonging to the genus Penella, subsisting on the body of a 

 dolphin (Coryphcena) ; it was buried in the fish near the gills as far 

 as the junction of the neck with the abdomen. 



" I am favoured with the following description of it by my friend 

 Dr. Baird of the British Museum ; — Class Crustacea, Division En- 

 tomostraca. Legion Siphonostoma, Order Lernida, Family Lerneo- 

 cerida. Genus Penella, Species P. pustulosa, Baird. Head rounded 

 and furnished with small fleshy projections of a light red colour. 

 Two fleshy prolongations at its base, short and obtuse, terminating 



at the tip in a small red knob. Neck long and slender, and as well 

 as the head transparent, showing the intestine and red blood. Ab- 

 domen of a very dark purple colour, and studded all over with small 

 whitish pustules. Plumose appendages simple. Ovigerous tubes 

 very long and slender. Length four inches."— ^wp^a.^' Savage Life 

 and Scenes in Australia, &;c., vol. i. p. 31. 



