Sargasso Sea, and not the fish (indian?:) descrilaed 

 several pages hefore in the same dissertation as 

 Lophius histrio,to which he also referred L.tumidus 

 and which he said had its principal dwelling-place 

 in the weeds of the Sargasso Sea. 



Linnaeus 1 type for Pennella sagitta seems to he 

 from this fish, which in the new systematizaticn is 

 cailed Chironectes marmor atus and is føom the Sar- 

 gasso Sea. Under this assumption we oelieve 

 that we have the Linnaean species, for four speci- 

 mens were taken from the same fish and the same 

 region of the Atlantic, But the assumption is 

 not proven since Linnaeus' short description and 

 simple figur e of a mutilated specimen can give us 

 no definite Icnowledge. 



Among the spec imens of fish infested with Pen- 

 nella which Capt.Hygom had hrought to the Museum 

 was found one which had four fully developed spee- 

 imens of this parasite d es ides many very young ones 

 all deeply huried in the hody and with the short 

 tail turned haclcward so that it looKed as if the 

 little fish had oeen stuck full of arrows. 



riave found other spec imens under the 

 skin and in the flesh,all young pennellas, which 

 reveal to us the earlier stages hitherto overlooked 



