40 1 )r. I'i. 1'. W ri^lit oil It iifir S/)irtfs <//' IViiiull.i. 



(/ork, o!ie of the few medieal nifii <i|' Inlantl who never, iiini<l 

 tlic exigencies of ii hir^^e |)n)t\'ssioii:il pnu-tiee, forget th(^ in- 

 terests of «eienee. He informs me that the two speeimens 

 were found projecting from a cireuhir (U'.preH.sion in the thick 

 skin of ji voiiiig sunfish, near to its dorsal lin ; they were 

 Imried in the skin and musrh' of the fisli to an extent of tliree 

 inelies. ( )ne spreimcn was luoken (»tf in removing it. There 

 were also two sp«'einiens (»f 'J'rtnto/nn cncriucniu adhering to 

 tlie liead of the lish. 



1 have eompure<l this species with all those of which 1 could 

 find an account. Some hgures and descriptions, like those in 

 the ' \'oyage ile la IV-yrouse,' represent species which it would 

 be impossihie to tletermine without the aid of the original spe- 

 cimens. 'I'he largest species described, and the one that I 

 think approaches nearest to I*, (n'f/iiii/nrm-i, is the l\ fiuHttiluHa^ 

 Hairtl. This species was originally puhlished in Angus's 

 ' Savage Life and Scenes in Australia ;' but Dr. Baird's de- 

 scription was copieil into the ' Anrnils,' ser. 1. vol. xix. 1847, 

 p. 2H() ; the woodcut is not very characteristic. The sjiecimen 

 was foun<l burieil in a dol|»hin's body, near its gills (the 

 dolphin was captiuvd in hit. I 1'^ 54' S., long. 27'^ VV.) ; the 

 length was 4 inches. The plninose appendages are described 

 as siniph', and the alKlonicn as Ijeing of a very dark piir|»le, 

 colour, and studded all over with snndl whitish pustules, if 

 there be no mistake in the descriiition of the plumose ap- 

 pendages, the speiies from the dolpliin is mit the same as that 

 from the sunfish. Dr. I^iird informs me that he examined a 

 stiecinu-n of I'lnm/la from a sunlish captured at Megavissey, 

 Cornwall, which hi' refers to /'. Ji/nsti, Linn. 'I'his will have 

 been, I think, the first instance of the capture of this species 

 on the coast of (Jreat Britain. 



I'rofessor Claus* figures the eye of a species of /V/t/jg/Za, 

 which he found placed below the cheliform antenna;. He de- 

 scribes it as consisting of a collection of pigment-cells covered by 

 three clear cornea-like portions— one central, and ojui on either 

 side. I cannot fiml, on a close examination of two Sju-cimens of 

 /*. orlhniiorisci, any appearance of a corneal structure. Li the 

 place indicated by I'rotcssor Claus there is a collection of pig- 

 ment, which certaiidy acts as an eye, and there are obscure traces 

 of the pignu'nt matter being arranged into a series of hexagonal 

 facets, 'i'he feathered antennide,s (or ajipendagcs to the second 

 cephalic somite) were distinetly to be seen on both specimens 

 examined. I cainiot find that they have been ile.scrihed or 

 figured as occurring in any species of I'innc/l<i. 'i'heir exist- 

 ence is a matter of s<»me little interest; for we thus find the 

 • /.. e. p. 6, pi. 2. tig. 10, 



