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my examples with L. galei I am following as regards the latter the 
figures of Scott 1 . Unfortunately all subsequent authors appear to have 
taken Brian’s statement upon trust, and not to have investigated 
parasites from Scyllium independently. The animal here considered 
may or may not be Lernaeopoda scyllii Richiardi; if not it must be 
a new species, since Richiardi’s species is purely nominal. My specimens 
Fig. 1. Scyllium canicula q, the pelvic region showing six parasites, Lernaeopoda scyllicola 
in situ. p.f. pelvic fin; Cl. extra-cloacal region ; Cp. claspers ; O. groove in clasper 
to which one animal was on this occasion attached; a. the more usual place of 
attachment. 
differ from L. galei, as figured by Scott and described by Wilson, amongst 
other points in the character of the maxillipedes and in the shape of 
the mandibles. The characters of the other appendages, the two pairs 
of antennae, and the first maxillae, are practically constant in all the 
1 Since going to press I have had the opportunity of examining a specimen from the 
Norman collection at the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), identified as Lernaeopoda galei 
Krdyer, from Polperro in 1862. The specimen mounted on a slide is labelled “from the 
smooth hound” (but the spirit-preserved specimens under same date and place are 
labelled “ from Caleus vulgaris’’’) The appendages and mouth parts of this mounted 
specimen agree, in the major part, with the figures of Scott, and differ, especially in the 
maxillipedes, from the species now under description. 
