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Leriifeophi’ya as it is characterised by its very long 
suckers. 
The genus Lerupoophrya was described in 1903 bv 
Perez (25). We have found it in the Bridgewater canal, and, 
like the Bordeaux type-specimens, attached to Cordylo- 
ph ora. 
Lernaeophrya is a larger form than Trichophrya. 
According to Perez it may attain to a size of 400 ju. 
Our specimens are not as large as this, bnt we have fonnd 
them over 200 /x in length (fig. 49). 
They difPer from both Trichophrya and Dendrosoma 
in the extraordinary length of the suckers. Perez says he 
has measured suckers 400 /« in length. Our specimens 
were smaller than his, but we have found some of the 
suckers to be over 275 n in length. Perez states that the gem- 
mulpB are frequently formed at a very early stage, befoi’e the 
arms are formed. We have fonnd the same peculiarity in some 
young forms which we attribute to Lern asophry a. In our 
fig. 32 we have drawn a young Acinetarian, which is probably 
a young Lernaeopli rv a, although we have no conclusive evi- 
dence to prove that it is so, in which there are no arms and 
only four suckers, but it nevertheless contains a full-gi’own 
gemmula in its brood pouch. 
As in 3'richophrya so in Lerna'ophrya the micronnclei 
have at present escaped onr observation, and as Perez does not 
mention these structures in the description of his specimens 
it is possible that some peculiarity of the micronuclei, Avhich 
renders them obscure in the resting stage, is a character 
which Lernaeophrya and Trichophrya have in common. 
Only the one species, L. capitata Perez, has at pre.sent 
been described. Onr specimens do not appear to differ from 
the type except in .size, and we are inclined, therefore, to 
regard them as a small race of the type-species. 
The gemmulae described by Perez were 50 fi in diameter, 
whereas the largest we have measured were only 37 /i in 
diameter, but in other respects they seem to agree. 
The important characters in which the genus Dendro- 
