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the thoracic segment are distiuctly seen the mouth, maxillae, aud 

 two pairs of maxillipeds. Body large, convex above, concave 

 beneath, robust, with margins deeply incised ; it is divided into 

 two portions, the thoracic bearing on the ventral side two pairs of 

 blunt lobed processes, and the genital rounded and larger. 

 Abdomen biarticulate. E,t;-g-sacs elongated, claviform. 

 Male pigmy as in Chondracanthics. 



Oralien asellinus. J 5 . (Plate XXVI. figs. 1, & la-lc.) 



Lerncea asellina Linn. Fauna Suae. 1761, p. 510. 

 Lenicentoma triglte Blaiuv. Jour, de Physique, xcv. 1822, p. 441, 

 pi. Ixii. fig. 12. 

 „ „ Blainv. Diet, des Sc. Nat. xxiv. 1823, p. 125. 



Chondracanihus triglce Nordm. Mikrogr. Beitrage, ii. 1832, p. 116, 



pi. ix. fig. 1. 

 „ „ Guerin, Iconograph. pi. ix. fig. 8. 



„ „ Kroyer, Tidsskrift, ii. 1838, p. 135, pi. iii. 



fig. 33. 

 „ „ V. Ben. Ann. Sc. Nat. 3 ser. xvi. 1851, 



p. 109. 

 „ „ M.-E. Hist. Nat. Crust, iii. 1840, p. 502. 



;, „ Stp. Bull. Soc. Koy. Dan. 1869, pi. ii. 



fig. 1. 

 „ B.-S. Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. vi. 1896, 

 p. 13, pi. iv. fig. 4. 

 Lernentonia asellina Baird, Brit. Entom. 1850, p. 329, pi. xxxv. 



fig. 4. 

 Chondracanihus gurnardi Kr. 



„ „ Stp. Bull. Soc. Eoy. Dan. 1869, pi. ii. 



fig. 3. 

 In Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 Hosts : gills o£ Oadus sp. and Trigla spp. Europe. 



G. 4. Stbabax Nordm. 



Head oblong, with six knob-like swellings. Body elongated, 

 widening posteriorly, where it gives off on either side four filiform 

 processes. Abdomen pyriform, g as long as processes ; limbs 

 suppressed. 



Male pigmy, distinctly segmented, and provided with limbs. 



(1) Steabax monsteosus. 6 2 • 



Strahax moiistrosus Nordm. Bull. Soc. Imp. N. H. Moscou, 

 1864, t. xxxvii., pi. v. fig. 10. 



Host : Scorpcena porcus. Mediterranean. 



G-. 5. Trichthaceeus Kroyer. 



Head short, dilated, separated from the oval non-segmented 

 body by a constriction. Abdomen small, articulate. Anterior 



