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Ascidiella scabra at Concarneau), in which the female has lost 

 its segmentation, the mouth-parts and thoracic legs heing purely 

 prehensile, and various species of JEnterocola, parasitic in the 

 stomach of Compound Ascidians, in which the female is a mere 

 sac incapable of free motion, while the male preserves its swim- 

 ming powers and a general Cyclops-ioxm. (Fig. 34). We 



Fig. 34. — EiUerucola fulgens. A, Ventral view 

 of 9, X 35; B, side view of <J , x 106. 

 Ahd.l, 1st abdominal segment ; Ant.l, Ant.S, 

 1st and 2nd antennae ; cm, gland-cells ; /t, 

 ventral nerve-cord ; og, oviducal gland ; ov, ovary ; 

 po, vagina ; Th.l^ 1st thoracic appendage ; Th.4, 

 Th.5^ 4th and 5th thoracic segments. (After 

 Canu.) 



Fig. 35. — Asferocheres violaceus, 9 , 

 with egg -sacs, x 57. (After 

 Giesbrecht.) 



have here the first instance of the remarkable parallelism between 

 the degree of parasitism and the degree of sexual dimorphism, a 

 parallelism which holds with great regularity among the Cope- 

 poda, and can be also extended to other classes of parasitic animals. 

 Fam. 6. Asterocheridae.^ — These forms retain the power of 

 swimming actively, and are very little modified in outward 

 appearance by their parasitic mode of life (Fig. 35), though they 



^ Giesbrecht, Fauna and Flora G. v. Neapel, Monogr. 25, 1899. 



