ORDER PffiCILOPODA — PANDARUS. 59 



{EXTRALIMITAL.) 



Genus Pandartts, Leach. Body ovate, occasionally elongate, ending in two long filaments. Shield 

 rounded in front, truncate behind. Antennae two. Feet fourteen ; the six anterior unguiculated, 

 the others bifid. Body covered with transverse scales, dentate on their posterior edges. Para- 

 sitic. 

 P. sinuaius. (Say, 1. c. p. 436.) Body oblong, quadrate, dilated. Scales six: four sulequal, in a trans- 

 verse line at the base of the abdomen, rounded at tip ; two larger, arising beneath the preceding, 

 slightly dentate at the tip, and not concealing half the abdomen, which is sinuate behind. Length, 

 0*2. Hab. body of Mustelus canis, or American Hound-fish. 



Genus Cecrops, Leach. Body oval, obtuse at the extremities, covered with four unequal scales which 

 are emarginate. No posterior filament. Feet fourteen : the six anterior unguiculate ; fourth 

 or fifth bifid; sixth and seventh with dilated coxae; the others membranous, dilated, natatory. 

 Antenna? two, very small. Parasitic. 

 C. latreilli, Leach. (Desm. pi. 50, fig. 2. Storer, Rep. Fishes, p. 172. Pl. 10, fig. 44 of this work.) 

 Shield coriaceous, bipartite : the anterior portion obcordate, deeply emarginate behind ; the poste- 

 rior consists of three, overlapping each other, and becoming gradually larger from before. An- 

 tennas of two joints, terminated by a single hair. Hab. Orthagoriscus mola. Northern Coast. 



GENUS LERNEA. Cuvier. 



Body long, cylindrical, more or less filiform ; enveloping membrane sub-coriaceous. Head 

 enlarged, with processes varying in number and size. Caudal extremities variously ter- 

 minated. Parasitic. 



Obs. The animals of this and the following genus were originally arranged under the Intes- 

 tinal worms. They have, however, notwithstanding their anomalous vermiform appearance, 

 too many characters in common with the crustaceans, to leave them where they were originally 

 placed. Some late writers have proposed fo erect them into a distinct class between Insects 

 and Worms. 



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I • Lernea cruciata. 



Lerntoctra cruciata. Lesciur, Ac. Nat. Sciences, Vol. 3, p. 286, pl. 11, fig. 4. 



Description. Body slender before, dilated behind, transparent ; mouth central, surrounded by 

 five robust processes. On the caudal extremity are five rounded tubercular processes. 

 Found attached to the Cichla ctnea, or Rock Bass of Lake Erie. 



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