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
[61] Quoted by Dana, 'Crustacea of United States Exploring
Expedition,' p. 1264.
_Antennæ._--These, from their present position, and from standing, in
their earlier stages whilst within their envelopes or horns, exteriorly
to the small medial pair (since aborted), I believe to be the second
pair; and this is Mr. Dana's opinion. In my former description of these
very singular and important organs (Pl. 30, figs. 4 and 8), I have
fallen into some considerable mistakes: the two plates or segments
(fig. 4, N), of which the posterior margins are inflected as apodemes
(_n_), carrying the eyes, are certainly, as may be clearly seen in the
pupa of Alcippe, Pl. 23, fig. 16, and as affirmed by Burmeister,[62]
the basal segments of the antennæ. The second or main segment
(formerly called by me the basal segment) has in some species an upper
portion of the membrane of which it is composed, next to the body,
excessively thin, and separated from the rest of the membrane composing
the segment, by an oblique line (fig. 8, _o_), which I mistook for
its articulation with the body.[63] We then come to the disc or third
segment; and lastly to the fourth, or ultimate segment. This ultimate
segment, generally, has its external corner projecting up, as a
step; and this sometimes, as in _Dichelaspis Warwickii_, gives the
appearance of its consisting of two segments; but a careful examination
of this part in Ibla, in which the step-like structure is carried to
an extreme, makes me believe that there is only one segment.[64] The
prehensile antennæ, therefore, like the natatory legs, are formed of
four consecutive segments, of which the basal segments give rise to the
singular apodemes, presently to be noticed (fig. 7), that carry the
great compound eyes. This basal segment, in all Cirripedes, is moulted
with the eyes, the three other segments invariably remaining cemented
to the surface of attachment.
[62] 'Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Rankenfüsser,' p. 19.
In tab. 1 of this work there are good drawings of the general
structure of the pupa of a species of Lepas, probably _L.
australis_. I believe this author was the first who made out the
structure of the abdomen of the pupa.
[63] In the table of measurements of the antennæ of the several
genera and species of the Lepadidæ (p. 286) of my former volume,
the articulation, called by me _basal_, I now know to be really
the articulation between the basal and second segment. In the
fourth column, headed "Length from end of the disc to the inner
margin of the basal articulation," the term inner margin really
applies to the oblique curved line separating the thin and scarcely
visible membrane from the thicker membrane of that segment. These
corrections do not in the least affect the object for which the
table was given.
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