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are prehensile, but are not so fused. Besides Achtheres there are 

 other fresh-water forms, e.ff. Lernaeopoda salmonea on Salmon, 

 and a number of marine genera. It appears that the larvae fix 

 themselves to their hosts by means of a long; glandular thread, 

 which proceeds from the middle of the forehead.-' 



Fam. 13. Choniostomatidae.^ — ^The members of this family- 

 are all parasitic on other Crustacea. The majority live parasiti- 

 cally in the marsupial pouches of female Amphipods, Isopods, 

 Mysidae, and Cumacea, e.g. Sphaeronella and Stenochoilieres in the 



marsupiaof Gammarids; but Chonio- 

 stoma occurs in the branchial cavity 

 of Hiiopolyte, Homoeoscelis is common 

 in the branchial cavity of Diastylis 

 and Iphinoe, and Aspidoecia on the 

 outside of the body of the Mysid 

 Erythrops. The males and females 

 live together in the same marsupium, 

 but the adult males retain the power 

 of roving about, and do not feed so 

 much as the females, though their 

 mouth - parts are similarly con- 

 structed (Fig. 47). Eepresentatives 

 occur all over the world, but the 

 majority of species known at pre- 

 sent are from the North Sea, the 

 most abundant being Stenochotheres 

 egregius, parasitic on the Gammarid 

 Metopa iruzelii, Goes. 



The male bears a median glandu- 

 lar thread on the forehead by which it attaches itself to the 

 females or to the host. Hansen considers that the family, is 

 most closely allied to the Lernaeopodidae. 



Fig. 47. — Ventral view of Stenocho- 

 theres egregius (Choniostomatidiie) 

 (5 . A, A',\si and 2nd antennae 

 M, mouth ; Mx, 2nd maxilla 

 y, 1st thoracic leg. (After Han 

 sen.) 



BRANCH ir. BRANCHIUEA. 



Fam. Argulidae.® — We have yet to- mention this group of 

 fish-parasites, related to the Copepoda, but occupying an isolated 



^ Clans, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. xi., 1861, p. 287. 



- Hansen, "The Choniostomatlrlae," Copenhagen. 



^ Clans, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. xxv., 1875, p. 217. 



