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not, however, attached to the gills, but burrowing in hollows 

 formed in the flesh of the fish, behind the anal fin (A. Scott). 

 Off a Short Sunfish captured at North Berwick, 28th Sept- 

 ember 1905 (W. Evans).^ This appears to be a rarer species 

 than the Cecrops. 



Division LERN^OIDA. 



Family Lern^id^. 



Genus (126) Lernsea, Linn^, 1767. 



286. Lemma hranchialis^ Linn^. 



1767. Lerncea hranchialis, Linn., Systema Naturse, ed. 12, vol. i. 



pt. ii. p. 1092. 

 1850. ,, ,, Baird, Brit. Entom., p. 344, pi. xxxv. 



fig. 12. 



Hah. — Frequent on the gills of Whitings and some other 

 Gadoids. 



Genus (127) Lernseenicus, Lesueur, 1824. 



287. Lernmenicus spratta (Sowerby). 



1806. Lerncea spratta, Sowerby, Brit. Miscell.,voL ii. p. 17, pi. Ixviii. 



1900. Lernceenicus sprattce, T. Scott, Eighteenth F. B. Kept., pt. iii. 



p. 161, pi. vii. figs. 7-10. 



J£ah. — On the eye of a Sprat, Clupea spratta, seen in one 



of the Leith Docks (J. Scott, August 1890). This Copepod 



is apparently seldom met with in the Firth of Forth, and 



this is the only record of its occurrence in the estuary known 



to me. 



Genus (128) Hsemobaphes, Steenstrup and Ltitken, 1861. 



288. Hmmohaphes cyclopterinus (Fabricius). 



1780. Lerncea cyclopterina, Fabr., Fauna Gronlandica, p. 337. 

 1900. Hcemthaphcs cydopterimts, T. Scott, Eighteenth F. B. Eept., 

 pt. iii. p. 162, pi. vii. fig. 14. 



^6fc&.— Found on the gills of a Pogge, Agonus cataphractus, 

 captured at Dunbar; and on a Butterfish, Pholis gunnellus, 

 taken near Fidra in 1901. 



1 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist, 1906, p. 57. 



