258 
Lernaeopoda 
L. GALEI. 
Habitat and Record. Two specimens, $, were taken on Galeus vulgaris 
the tope, captured at Plymouth in August 1918. They were attached between 
the claspers in the extra-cloacal region. 
Body. Vide Fig. 1 b. 
Fig. 2. Lernaeopoda mustelicola. The anterior end of the female in ventral aspect showing some 
of the appendages in situ. M. mouth; ^41, antennules; A2, antennae; Mn. mandibles; 
1 Mx. 1st maxillae; Mp. maxillipedes; Ex. exopodite; En. endopodite. 
Dimensions: compared with those of Wilson (“Parasitic Copepods of 
N. America”). 
Length of cephalothorax 
Leigh-Sharpe 
1-75 mm. 
Wilson 
1*5 mm. 
99 
trunk 
7 
9 
9 9 
2nd maxillae 
5-5 
4 
99 
abdominal appendages 
nearly 2 
2 
99 
ovisacs 
6 
10 
From inspection of this table, were the dimensions of my specimens 
consistently smaller, one would expect that they were not fully grown. 
