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oblique ridge isolated in the membranous area. In Cambaroides 

 similis, the base of the fifth leg shows a large white area thought 

 to be glandular, the area I in Fig. 13, and the ending of the 

 defferent duct is in a solid projection with a slit-like orifice. 

 Whether in life a soft papilla can be projected from these 



FIG. 13. 



orifices is doubtful, but the hard and slightly projecting areas 

 can be put against the groove in the first stylet in such a way 

 that we infer the sperm may be poured out into the groove of 

 the stylet, with perhaps some aid from the second stylet. 



Turning now to the destination of the sperm transferred by the 





FIG. 14. 



above male organs we fail to find upon the female any specialized 

 receptacle. The under side of the thorax of the female Cam- 

 baroides Japonicus, Fig. 14, has a series of median plates between 



