3 io SEA FABLES EXPLAINED. 



their host. Fig. 43 is a portrait of a Coronula diadema taken 

 from the nose of a whale stranded at Kintradwell, in the 

 north of Scotland, in 1 866, and sent to the late Mr. Frank 

 Buckland. Growing on this Coronula are three of the 

 curious eared barnacles, Conchoderma aiirita, the Lepas 

 aurita of Linnaeus. The species of the whale from which 

 these Barnacles were taken was not mentioned, but it was 

 probably the " hunch-backed " whale, Megaptera longimana, 

 which is generally infested with this Coronula. This very 



FIG. 42. A SHIP'S FIGURE-HEAD WITH BARNACLES ATTACHED TO IT. 



illustrative specimen was, and I hope still is, in Mr. Buck- 

 land's Museum at South Kensington. It was described by 

 him in Land and Water, of May iQth, 1866, and I am 

 indebted to the proprietors of that paper for the accom- 

 panying portrait of it. 



The young Barnacle when just extruded from the shell of 

 its parent is a very different being from that which it will 

 be in its mature condition. It begins its life in a form 

 exactly like that of an entomostracous crustacean, and, 

 like a Cyclops, has one large eye in the middle of its fore- 



