562 Annals of the South African Mnscuni. 



Desmarest and as LernaomTjzon by Bassett-Smith), seems 

 undoubtedly prior to Cuvier's genus of intestinal worms, 

 the preference for Anchorella, to which Cuvier in 1830 did 

 not even vouchsafe a Latin form, is not easy to explain. 



Lerneomyzon denticis (Kroyer). 

 1864. Anchorella denticis, Kroyer, Naturhist. Tidsskr., Ser. 3, vol. ii., 



p. 370, pi. 16, fig. 4 a, h. 

 1866. A.d., Heller, Novara Crustacea, p. 243. 



" On Dentex rupestris from the Cape." Dr. Gilchrist (Mar. 

 Invest., vol. i., pp. 109, 114) points out that Pagrus laticeps, 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes, has sometimes been confused with 

 the true Dentex rupestris, of those authors, both of the fishes 

 being South African. 



Lerneomyzon canthari (Heller). 



1866. Anchorella canthari, Heller, Novara Crustacea, p. 242, pi. 24, 



fig. 6. 



On Cantharus bleekeri from the Cape. Dr. Gilchrist's 



Catalogue includes Cantharus hlochii, Cuvier and Valenciennes, 



the " Hottentot," so that possibly Heller writes C. bleekeri by 



mistake for C. hlochii. 



Family SPH.^E0NELLID^. 



1887. GhoniostomaticlcB, Hansen, Dijmphna-Togtets zool.-bot. 



Udbytfce, p. 271. 

 1897. G ., Hansen, The Choniostomatidae, Copepoda parasites on 



Malacostraca. 

 1902. Spharonellidce, Stebbing, Encycl. Brit., ed. 10, vol. xxviii., 

 Suppl. vol. iv., p. 273. 

 The genus Sphceronella being earlier than Hansen's Chonio- 

 stoma should give its title to the family. 



Gen. SPH.^E0NELLA, Salensky. 



1868. Sphceronella, Salensky, Arch. Naturg., vol. xxxiv., p. 301. 

 1897. S., Hansen, The Choniostomatidae, pp. 4, 98. 



SPHiERONELLA CAPENSIS, HaUSeu. 



1897. Sphceronella capensis, Hansen, The Choniostomatidae, pp. 100, 

 131, pi. 5, figs. 4a-4c, pi. 6, figs. la-Id. 



