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Genus HAEMOBAPHES Steenstrup and Liitken, 1861 



Female. — Head fused with first segment, subspherical and pro- 

 duced laterally into cushionlike processes ; second, third, and fourth 

 segments distinctly separated and usually produced laterally into 

 cushion processes, those on the second and third segments entire, 

 those on the fourth segment biiobed; fifth segment forming a long, 

 slender, and cylindrical neck, flexed in front of the center and 

 armed with short chitin horns. Trunk much swollen and bent into 

 a sigmoid curve, with a pair of processes on each side over the bases 

 of the egg strings; abdomen not separated from the genital seg- 

 ment; caudal rami lacking. First antenna 3-segmented; second 

 antenna chelate ; first two pairs of legs biramose, rami 2-segmented ; 

 third and fourth pairs uniramose, rami 1-segmented. A single 

 species here. 



Male. — Unlaiown. 



Figure 294. — Haemohaphes eyclopterina: a. Female, lateral ; i, fe- 

 male, antennae and mouth parts 



HAEMOBAPHES CYCLOPTERINA (Fabricius) 



Figure 294 



Lemaea eyclopterina Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 387, 1780. 

 HaemoMpJies eyclopterina Wilson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, p. 95, pi. 14, 

 1917. 



Ocemrence. — Found on the gills of the wolf eel {Lycenohelys ver- 

 rillii) , captured in the Gulf of Maine east of Cape Cod. 



Distribution. — Greenland (Fabricius, Miiller, Stephensen) ; British 

 Isles (T. and A. Scott) ; Iceland (Steenstrup and Liitken) ; Faroe Is- 

 lands (Hansen) ; coast of Korea (Wilson). 



