in contact with the mouth (Fig. 13, G). It remains in this position until birth. The just-born young are from 10-15 mm. in length and have green antennae, but the rest of the body is either quite white or of a reddish colour. This red colour differs from the colour of the adult in being soluble in spirit. The mesoblastic somites are paired sacs formed from the anterior lateral portions of the primitive streak (Fig. 13, C). As they are formed they become placed in pairs on each side of the blastopore. The somites of the first pair eventually obtain a position entirely in front of the blastopore (Fig. 13, D). They form the somites of the praeoral lobes. The full complement of somites is acquired at about the stage of Fig. 13, E. {22}[Illustration: FIG. 14.—A series of diagrams of transverse sections through _Peripatus_ embryos to show the relations of the coelom at successive stages. (After Sedgwick.) A, Early stage: 1, gut; 2, mesoblastic somite; no trace of the vascular space; endoderm and ectoderm in contact. B, Endoderm has separated from the dorsal and ventral ectoderm. The somite is represented as having divided on the left side into a dorsal and ventral portion: 1, gut; 2, somite; 3, haemocoele. C, The haemocoele (3) has become divided up into a number of spaces, the arrangement of which is unimportant. The dorsal part of each somite has travelled dorsalwards, and now constitutes a small space (triangular in section) just dorsal to the gut. The ventral portion (2′) has assumed a tubular character, and has acquired an external opening. The internal vesicle is already indicated, and is shown in the diagram by the thinner black line: 1, gut; 2′, nephridial part of coelom; 3, haemocoele; 3′, part of haemocoele which will form the heart—the part of the haemocoele on each side of this will form the pericardium; 4, nerve-cord. D represents the conditions at the time of birth; numbers as in C, except 5, slime glands. The coelom is represented as surrounded by a thick black line, except in the part which forms the internal vesicle of the nephridium.]