PROTEOLEPAS BIVINCTA.
- Fig. 6, Proteolepas bivincta: diagram, showing the probable position of
the young animal, just before its metamorphosis, within
the carapace of the supposed pupa;
a, caudal appendages;
b, six pairs of natatory thoracic legs;
c, mouth, no doubt closed and functionless, as in other pupæ;
g, threads of attachment, with cement-ducts in process of formation;
h, antennæ.
- 7, Proteolepas bivincta, magnified about twenty-six times.
- m, mouth, the summit being formed of the labrum and palpi
joined.
- 1c, first segment of body; homologically the seventh or last
cephalic segment.
- 2t to 8t, second to eighth segment of body; homologically, first
to seventh thoracic segments.
- 9a to 11a, ninth to eleventh segment of body; homologically,
three segments of abdomen.
- d′, three muscles attached on each side to the labrum, and
running to the gnathites.
- e e, great ovarian sack.
- f, true ovaria.
- g, threads of attachment.
- h, three terminal segments of the antennæ of the pupa.
- i, vesicula seminalis.
- k, papilla representing the penis.
- Fig. 1, Balanus tintinnabulum: an enlarged longitudinal section
through the shell and sack, with the right-hand scutum and
tergum and right-hand half of shell and basis removed, exhibiting
the body of the animal not in section. The cirri
are exhibited only on one side.
- A, A, orifice of shell, within which lies the operculum formed
by a pair of scuta (S), and pair of terga (T).
- B, basis (homologically the anterior end of the shell).
- K, carina of shell (or dorsal valve or compartment of shell).
- K′, sheath of carina.
- L, lateral compartment of shell. The carino-lateral compartment
is hidden by the scutum and tergum.
- R, rostrum of shell (or ventral valve or compartment of shell).
- R′, sheath of rostrum.
- O, O, opercular membrane, connecting the opercular valves with
the overhanging basal edge of the sheath.
- S, scutum.
- T, tergum.
- a, adductor scutorum muscle, with the scutum on the near side
removed.
- b, the whole space enclosed by a broken sinuous line, round a
and b, shows the cut surface of attachment to the near
scutum, which has been removed.
- b′, lower muscle, on the near side, running from near the basal
edge of the scutum to near the basal margin of the labrum
(e). Above this are three other muscles (all on the near
side), running to the membrane between the labrum and
adductor muscle.
- c, prosoma, including the main portion of the stomach and
thickened ends of the vesiculæ seminales: homologically this
is formed by the development of the second thoracic segment,
which carries the first pair of cirri; and possibly, in
part, by the antecedent segment, i. e. the first thoracic
segment.
- c′, thorax, extending from the prosoma to the posterior end of
the body: the letter (c′) stands on the segment supporting
the third cirrus; homologically, this segment is the fourth
thoracic.
- d′, orifice of the acoustic sack, above which is the basal articulation
of the first cirrus.
- e, labrum, forming the back (i. e. anterior end) of the mouth,
with the transverse palpi obscurely seen on the summit.
- f, sack in which the animal lies, with the tunic lining it, continuous
with that investing the prosoma (c), and lining
the under sides of both opercular valves, but cut off round
(b) and (a) by the removal of the near scutum. The
branchia on the further side, which occupies the position
represented at fig. 3, is covered by the body of the animal.
- g g, ovarian, inosculating cæca, branching from the simple
duct (of which the near one of the pair is represented),
leading to the ovaria (not represented) within the body.
- h, rostral depressor muscle of the scutum: the lateral depressor
muscle of the scutum is hidden by the body and by the
membranes of the sack.
- i, carinal depressor muscle of the tergum.
- z, antennæ (three terminal segments) of the pupa; I distinctly
saw these in this species, but they are here represented
considerably too large, even on the supposition that a
young shell had been drawn, and magnified about twelve
times.
- 2, Testes of Balanus perforatus, greatly magnified.
- 3, Branchia of Bal. tintinnabulum, on the same scale as in fig. 1,
and in its natural position. This drawing was made by
lifting up the body in fig. 1; the organ being thus completely
exposed over its whole interior surface;
a is the basal end of the spur of the tergum.