In the series of facts now given, we have one curious illustration more to the many already known, how gradually nature changes from one condition to the other,--in this case from bisexuality to unisexuality. Finally, in the four genera so often named, we meet the following several cases, some of them even the most diverse, occurring in closely allied species. (1st), a female, with a single male (rarely with two) permanently attached to her, protected by her, and capable of seizing, by the movements of its pedunculated body, any minute animals or substances found within her sack; (2d), a female with successive pairs of short-lived, mouthless males, inhabiting pouches on each side under her scutal valves; (3d), a female with many, in one instance fourteen, short-lived males, destitute of mouth, thorax, and appendages, but furnished with a stupendously long male organ, attached to a thickened portion of her outer integuments, but lying within the cavity which she has excavated; (4th), an hermaphrodite with a male attached within the sack, capable of feeding itself, as in the first case; (5th), an hermaphrodite with from one to three males, organised like ordinary Cirripedes, and apparently capable of seizing prey in the common way; and attached between the scuta, and thus protected; (6th and lastly), an hermaphrodite with from one or two up to five or six, short-lived, mouthless males, like those in the second case, attached in one particular spot, on each side of the orifice leading into the sack. ORDER I.--THORACICA. _Cirripedia having a carapace, consisting either of a capitulum on a peduncle, or of an operculated shell with a basis. Body formed of six thoracic segments, generally furnished with six pairs of cirri; abdomen rudimentary, but often bearing caudal appendages; mouth with the labrum not capable of independent movements; larva firstly uniocular, with three pairs of legs, lastly, binocular, with six pairs of thoracic legs._