A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2): The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc.Darwin, Charles
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A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2): The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc.
Darwin, Charles
Balanidae; Cirripedia
I have given a lateral view of the pupa of _Lepas australis_ (Pl. 30,
fig. 2), illustrative of the description in my former volume: the
specimen is drawn as if transparent, and it was to a certain extent
thus rendered by boiling in caustic potash. A sketch of the position
of the young Cirripede within the pupa, was made by the camera. At
first the drawing will perhaps hardly be comprehended: the darker
shaded portion to the left of the letter (_b_) shows the extent of the
sack, with the included thorax and natatory legs of the pupa: to the
right of the same letter, if we do not consider the young included
Cirripede, the only organs distinguishable in the mass of cellular and
oily matter, are the alimentary canal, the cement-glands (_t_), _i.
e._ the incipient ovaria, and the cement-ducts (_t′_) which enter the
antennæ. A view is also given (fig. 4) of the ventral surface of the
pupa; and a transverse section (fig. 7) of the carapace, taken close
to the eye-apodemes. On comparison with the larva in the second stage,
the changes in external appearance and structure are not very great;
the prehensile antennæ are freed from their cases; the two eyes stand
further apart; the three posterior pairs of legs have been developed,
and a small abdomen has become distinctly separated from the thorax.
Before proceeding to make a few additional remarks and corrections to
my former description of the pupa, it will be advisable, on account of
the importance of the subject, to discuss the homologies of the limbs.
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