of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 113 
but merging into blackish brown along the middle and towards the 
‘proximal end ; the elytraform plates and thoracic feet, which also appear 
to be chitinous, are whitish with a slight tinge of yellow. 
I am indebted to Mr. Irvine for the opportunity of examining and 
describing this interesting species. 
Drs. Steenstrup and Liitken in the work referred to above give a 
series of excellent figures illustrative of the structure of the male of 
Anthosoma, and it would appear from the description and figures of these 
authors that the large foliaceous and elytraform dorsal plates which cover 
the posterior part of the female are absent in the male. 
Fam. LERNZIDE, 
Genus Pennella, Oken, 
Pennella filosa (Linne). 
1754. Pennatula filosa, Linn., Syst. Nat. et, Ameen. Acad., vol. 
v. 
Pennatula filosa, Linn., Syst. Nature, Ed. 12, vol. ii, pp. 
—22. 
1870. Pennella Orthagorisci, EK. P. Wright, Ann. and Mag., Nat. 
Hist. (4), vol. v., p. 42, pl. 1. 
The Rev. Canon A. M. Norman, to whom I am often indebted for 
information and help in Natural History research, has, with his usual 
kindness, permitted me to examine a specimen of this curious copepod 
parasite which he received many years ago from the late Thomas 
Edward of Banff, who found it on a short sunfish, Orthagoriscus mola, in 
the Moray Firth. The species is recorded in Smiles’ Life of Edward, 
among the many other Natural History rarities mentioned at the end of* 
that work, under the name of Pennella jibrosa. Linneus in his 12th 
Edition of Systema Nature, referring to the host of Pennella jilosa, says, 
“ Habitat in M. Mediterranei Xiphiis.” 
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1767. 
Genus Lernea, Linné (1767). 
Lernea lusci, Bassett-Smith, Pl. vi., fig. 18. 
1896. Lerncea lusci, Bassett-Smith, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(6), vol. xviii, p. 13, pl. iv., fig. 6. 
1904. Lernea lusci, T. Scott, 22nd F.B. Rept., Pt. ITI., p. 277. 
pl. xvii., fig, 12 and 13. 
A Lernea apparently belonging to this species was found adhering to 
a small Gadus luscus sent to the Laboratory from the fish market at 
Aberdeen on January 12, 1905. The various species belonging to the 
genus Lernea fix themselves to the gills or gill-arches of the fishes 
infested by them, but the specimen now recorded had its head buried 
in the flesh of the fish some distance behind the operculum, as shown in 
the drawing (fig. 18). This is the first example of the kind I have met 
with. 
Fam. CHONDRACANTHIDA. 
Genus Sphyrion, Cuvier (1830). 
Sphyrion lumpi, Kroyer. 
1863. Lestecra lumpi, Kr., Bidrag til Kundskab, Nat. Tidsskr., 
BR. 2 B., p. 325, Tab. xviii., fig. 5, a-g. 
