LERNEONEMA. 339 



Males. Very small. Body globular, and more imper- 

 fect than in the preceding tribes, having no distinct thorax, 

 and no rudiments of feet behind the appendages which 

 represent the foot-jaws. 



Family 1— PENELLAD^. 



LerneoceRIENS {pars), M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., iii. 



Character. — Several pairs of feet situated on the under 

 surface of the body near the head, but very small and 

 rudimentary. 



Genus Lerneonema. 



Lern^a, Soicerbi/, British ]\Iiscellaiiy. 



— Blainville, Turtou's British Fauna. 

 Lerneocera, Blainville, Jouru. Phys., xcv. 

 Lerneopenna, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Philad., iii. 

 Lerneonema, M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., iii, 524. 



Character. — Body long, slender, narrowed anteriorly 

 in the form of a neck, which is terminated by a swollen 

 head, fmniished with two or three simple, curved, horn- 

 shaped appendages. Abdominal portion of body of in- 

 considerable length, and simple. Oviferous tubes long 

 and slender. 



History. — The genus Lerneonema was established by 

 M. Edwards, in his ' Hist. Nat. Crust.' (iii), to receive 

 some species of Lerneadse, resembling considerably the 

 Pennatula of Linnaeus (Penella, Oken), but which are 

 destitute of the peculiar plumose abdomen which charac- 

 terises distinctly this latter genus. 



Baker seems to have known a species belonging to the 

 genus, and describes it as British, in the ' Philosophical 

 Transactions' for 1744. He calls it the " Eye-sucker," and 

 says " it was found fixed by the snout to the eyes of a sprat." 

 His figure is very bad, and no doubt difficult to be recog- 

 nised. . We must remember, however, that in removing 



