LERNEONEMA. 
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Males. Very small. Body globular, and more imper- 
fect than in the preceding tribes, having no distinct thorax, 
and no rudiments of feet behind the appendages which 
represent the foot-jaws. 
Family 1 — PENELLADiE. 
Lerneoceriens {pars), M. Edwards , Hist. Nat. Crust., iii. 
Character . — Several pairs of feet situated on the under 
surface of the body near the head, but very small and 
rudimentary. 
Genus Lerneonema. 
Lern^ea, Sowerby, British Miscellany. 
— Blainville, Turton’s British Fauna. 
Lerneocera, Blainville , Journ. Phys., xcv. 
Lerneopenna, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Philad., iii. 
Lerneonema, M. Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust., iii, 524. 
Character . — Body long, slender, narrowed anteriorly 
in the form of a neck, which is terminated by a swollen 
head, furnished with two or three simple, curved, horn- 
shaped appendages. Abdominal portion of body of in- 
considerable length, and simple. Oviferous tubes long 
and slender. 
History . — The genus Lerneonema was established by 
M. Edwards, in his ‘ Hist. Nat. Crust/ (iii), to receive 
some species of Lerneadae, resembling considerably the 
Pennatula of Linnaeus (Penella, Oken), but which are 
destitute of the peculiar plumose abdomen which charac- 
terises distinctly this latter genus. 
Baker seems to have known a species belonging to the 
genus, and describes it as British, in the ‘ Philosophical 
Transactions’ for 1744. He calls it the “ Eye-sucker,” and 
says “ it was found fixed by the snout to the eyes of a sprat.” 
His figure is very bad, and no doubt difficult to be recog- 
nised. We must remember, however, that in removing 
