290 THE WORLD OF THE SEA. 
of the ocean—the whales. The Coronula, one of these parasites, 
assembles in roundish spots; on a strip of skin an inch long and 
a quarter of an inch broad, forty-five were crowded. They are 
arranged symmetrically, as stones ina pavement. The 7zbicinella 
are less depressed than the coronula. They also inhabit the whale, 
preferring to pass their existence in the blubber of the mighty 
cetacea. These cirrhopods burrow two or three inches through 
the skin. 
