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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). 1 This appears to be a rarer species 

 than the Cecrops. 



Division LERN^EOIDA. 

 Family Lekn^id^. 



Genus (126) Lernsea, Linne\ 1767. 



286. Lemma branchialis, Linn 6'. 



1767. Lemma branchialis, Linn., Systema Naturae, ed. 12, vol. i. 



pt. ii. p. 1092. 

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



fig. 12. 



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

 Gadoids. 



Genus (127) Lernseenicus, Lesueur, 1824. 



287. Lernwenicus spratta (Sowerby). 



1806. Lemma spratta, Sowerby, Brit. Miscell. , vol. ii. p. 17, pi. lxviii. 

 1900. Lemceenicus sprattm, T. Scott, Eighteenth F. B. Rept., pt. iii. 

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



Hah. — 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 Liitken, 1861. 



288. Hwmobaphes cyclopterinus (Fabricius). 



1780. Lemma cydopterina, Fabr., Fauna Gronlandica, p. 337. 

 1900. Hmmolaphes cyclopterinus, T. Scott, Eighteenth F. B. Rept., 

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



Hob. — 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. 



