f a male of Anchorella, which is on the same plate 

 s the figures of Pennella sagitta, which might well 

 ive occasion to the error of mistalcing it for the 

 ale of tnis Pennella« Tnis is the more lilcely 

 ecause tnis whole section of Edwards' Histoire nas 

 Any character s which unfortunately do not agree 

 ith what is known. There is more of it taKen from 

 ne worics of other autnors tnan tnere is oased upon 

 riginal and painstaKing investigation,at least s© 

 ar as this group of parasites is concerned. 



We can only add a very littlw to tnis ohscure 

 nowledge,yet we h&ve discovered in,P.exocoeti,a 

 ittle aoove the "oase of the egg-strings,two almost 

 icroscopie spec imens of a creature, which so much 

 esemoles the otner Lernaean dwarf males that we have 

 ssuined that it may well oe the Pennella male hitherto 

 ought in vain. They vir er e Tooth fastened to the 

 Kin of the female so tightly oy the ir maxillipeds 

 hat it was not possiole to loosen them without tear- 

 ng them in pieces. Fig«33 shows the form as far 

 s it can oe made out under strong magnif ication. 



On a quite young specimen of P. varians we found 

 astened to the posterior horder of the genital seg- 

 .ent two microscopic structures which we take to oe 

 permatophores,und we found something similar on a 



