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to him. The structure of the oral parts have not been satisfactorily made out 

 either by Kurz or by Scott, and the signification of the peculiar sucking disk 

 occurring in the female was quite misapprehended by Kurz, who believed it 

 to enclose the oral aperture, a pair of chitinous rods joining this disk on each 

 side and serving for its support being erroneously described as mandibles. 



Occurrence. Two female specimens of this peculiar Copepod were 

 found last summer at Riser, south coast of Norway, among dredged material 

 taken up from a depth of abouth 50 fathoms, and some other specimens, 

 among them an adult male, were recently picked up from the bottom-residue 

 of a large collecting bottle containing various marine animals obtained by Mr. 

 Kjasr in the Christiania Fjord, near Dr0bak. Kurz, as above mentioned, found 

 this form parasitic on a species of Eunice (E. Claparedi), and no doubt this 

 form also off our coasts may be stated to infest some nearly-allied worms. 



Distribution. British Isles (Scott), Mediterranean at Triest (Kurz). 



