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Moore, Report U. S. Com. Fisheries XX, Pt. 2, 1902, p. 172, pi. 

 X, figs. 3-4. Richardson, Bull. 54, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1905, p. 227, 

 fig. 230. 



Two adult and four young specimens of this well-known fish 

 parasite were collected May 14, 1918, near Pelican Island, Bar- 

 bados, and are in the collections of the State University of Iowa. 



The type locality of the species was described "Habitat la mer 

 des Antilles". 



The species has been recorded as parasitic on Ocyurus chry su- 

 ms, Bathystoma rimator, Haemulon plumieri, H. arcuatuni, 

 Upeneus martinicus, and Ahudefduf saxtalis from a series of 

 localities establishing a geographic range from Maryland to the 

 Straits of Magellan. 



The representatives of the species from the following localities 

 are in the collections of the U. S. National Museum : on " Grunt, ' ' 

 Jewfish Bush Lake, Florida ; "on fish, ' ' Key West, Florida ; 

 Arroyo and Vieques, Porto Rico; West End Santa Lucia Bay, 

 Cuba ; Cape Cajon, Cuba ; on parrot-fish, Montego Bay, Jamaica ; 

 on eye of yellow-tail, Ocyurus chrysurus, Montego Bay, Jamaica; 

 "from angle of mouth (external) of Bathystoma rimator^ \ Ja- 

 maica; from small yellow-tail. Snug Harbor, Montego Bay, Ja- 

 maica; on head of Haemulon arcuatum, Cozumel, Yucatan; Cat. 

 No. 7660, on fish, St. Thomas, West Indies; Buck Island, near 

 St. Thomas, West Indies; 1 specimen on red-fish, St. Croix, West 

 Indies ; on Ahudefduf saxatilis, Toso Point, Canal Zone, Panama ; 

 on A. saxatilis, Colon Reef, Panama ; Cat. No. 20481, 2 speci- 

 mens, Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela ; Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil. 



Genus Cymothoa Fabricius 



Cymothoa oestrum (L.) 



Oniscus oestrum Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10th Ed., I, 1758, p. 

 636, No. 2; Fauna suecica, 2nd ed., 1761, p. 499, No. 2053; Syst. 

 Nat., 12 ed., I, 1767, pt. 2, p. 1059, No. 2. 



Asellus oestrum Olivier, Encycl. Method. IV, 1789, p. 253. 



Cymothoa oestrum Fabricius, Entom. Syst. II, 1798, p. 505, 

 No. 6, — Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XI, 1815, p. 372 ; Diet. 

 Sei. Nat. XII, 1818, p. 362. 



Cymothoa dufresnei Leach, Diet. Sci. Nat. XII, 1818, p. 352. 



