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between which, on the middle line, is a small tubercle, 
representing the abdomen. Ovarian tubes of moderate 
length, not quite equal to length of thorax. 
Length of the whole body, including arms, about three 
fourths of an inch. 
Male. Body divided into two portions, of an ovoid 
form, and nearly of equal size. The upper half represents 
the head, and carries a pair of antennae, and two pairs of 
foot-jaws of considerable magnitude. The lower half, 
representing the thorax, has at its posterior extremity 
two sub -globular appendages, a little longer than those 
in the female. 
Hab . — Female . Attached to the cavity posterior to 
the vent of the Squalus galeus , Belfast, December 1839, 
W. Thompson, Esq. 
3. Lerneopoda salmonea. Tab. XXXV, fig. 6. 
Pedicultjs salmonis, OUler, Kongl. Svensk. Vetensk. Acad.Hadling., 
xii, 171, t. 8, f. 1-5, 1751. 
Lern.®a salmonea, Linnceus , Faun. Suec., edit. 2d, 509, No. 2102, 
1761; Syst. Nat., edit. 12th, 293; Lernsea,No.3. 
— Cor diner, Antiq. and Seen, of the N. of Scotland, 
7, 8, t. 6, f. 2. 
— 0. Fabricius , Faun. Grcenl., 337. 
— Muller , Zool. Dan. Prod., 2711. 
Entomoda salmonea, Lamarck, Hist. An. s. Vert., edit. 2d, iii, 686, 
Lerneopoda salmonea, Blainville, Journ. Phys., 1822, 127. 
— Mayor, Bull, des Sc. Soc. Philom., 1821, 21. 
Lerneopoda carpionis (?), Kroyer, Tidsskrift, i, t. 2, f. 6. 
— M. Fdwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., iii, 515, 
Linnaeus’s description of this species, as far as it goes, 
is very good. “ Body obovate, thorax obcordate, the two 
arms linear, approximated.” The head is rather small, 
somewhat bulging out at the back part, broader there, 
and rather sharp-pointed at the anterior extremity. From 
the base of the head spring the two arms, which are 
rounded, and slightly shorter than the body. The thorax 
