LERNEOPODA. 333 



' Syst. Nat.,' 1766. The same little animal was a few 

 years afterwards described as British ; the Rev. Charles 

 Cordiner having figured it in 1780, in his 'Antiquities 

 and Scenery of the North of Scotland,' as occurring in 

 the gills of the salmon in the rivers of that country, 

 especially when the fish is "foul." 



Another species was afterwards mentioned by the arctic 

 voyager Scoresby, in 1820, adhering to the Greenland 

 shark. Several specimens were taken by him attached to 

 the eye of that animal, and brought home for examination. 

 It buries its arm-shaped appendages in the substance of 

 the eye to the depth of nearly a fourth part of their length, 

 and hangs out externally. The sharks thus attacked seem 

 to be rendered blind by their pigmy assailants. " The 

 sailors," says Captain Scoresby, "imagine this shark is 

 blind, because it pays not the least attention to the pre- 

 sence of a man, and is indeed so apparently stupid, that 

 it never draws back when a blow is aimed at it with a 

 knife or lance." (Arctic Regions, p. 539.) The speci- 

 mens brought home by Captain Scoresby were ultimately 

 placed in the hands of Dr. Grant, and the species was 

 described by him in Dr. Brewster's ' Edinburgh Journal 

 of Science,' in 1827, under the name of Lenifsa eJongata. 



A species was also figured and described by M. Mayor, 

 in the 'Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique,' in 1824; 

 and Kroyer, in his ' Tidsskrift,' describes four more new 

 species, and found the male of one, of which he gives a 

 figure. 



The young have not yet been seen. 



1. Lerneopoda elongata. Tab. XXXV, fig .5. 



Lekn.^a ELONGATA, Grant, Brewster's Edinburgh Journ. of Sc., vii, 



147, t. 2, f. 5, 1S27. 

 Lekneopoda elongata, Kroyer, Tidsskrift, i, t. 2, f. 12, t. 3, f. 3 a. 



— M.Edwards,'}A\sX. Nat. Crust., iii, 515. 



The Eye or the Greenland Shark, Scoresby, Arctic Regions, i, 



538, t. 15, f. 5. 



JDescription. — The head is very distinct, of a horny 



