THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF iNATtJRAL HISTORY [SEVENTH SERIES.] " perlitora spar^te museum. Naiades, et circimi vitreos considite fontes : Pollice virgineo teneros hie cari^ite flores : Floribus et pictum. divae. replete canistrum. At vos, o Njmphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; Ite, recurrato rariata corallia trunco Tellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchj-lia succo." N'.PartheniiGiannettasi, Bel. 1. No. 1. JANUARY 1898. I. — Some neio Parasitic Copepods found on Fish at Bombay. By P. W. Bassett-Smith, Staff-Surgeon R.N. , F.R.M.S., F.Z.S. [Plates I.-^^EI.] The continuation of the investigation of the parasitic Copepoda of fish which I commenced at Plymouth (see Ann. & Ma^-. Nat. Hist., July 1896, and 'Journal of the Marine Biological Society,' February 1896) was much favoured by my beino-stationed for a lengthy period at Bombay : this was all the more interesting as it practically opened up an almost unknown field, for, beyond the valuable works of Dr. Heller and Kroyer and some stray notes, there has hardly been anything written about these minute animals living on fish found in Eastern waters ; and as apparently many individual fish, or, at least, genera of them, have organisms peculiar to themselves preying on them, it is not surprising that a comparatively large number of new species should have been obtained. As in England, it was noticed that those specimens which most frequently provided parasites were not in any way in bad condition, or showed only in exceptional cases evidence of their presence being harmful to the host. These parasites Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. i. 1
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