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COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 



CHAP. 



of the hind-gut form a loop (Fig. 322). The 2 limbs of the loop grow together 

 for a certain distance, and wind round each other at this part. 



In the larvre of some Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, Myrmekon, and Dipt/ r 

 (Pupipara) the mid-gut ends blindly and is not yet connected with the hind-gut, the 

 latter performing exclusively excretory functions (Fig. 321). 



The Malpighian Vessels. These are long, generally filamentous appendages, 

 which begin to form as imaginations of the proctodteum. Their large epithelial 



FIG. 320. Nervous, tracheal, and digestive systems of the Honey bee (after Leuckart). 

 The fine branchings of the tracheal system are not represented, the tracheal system on the right 

 side of the figure is only partly drawn, nu, Facet eye ; a, antenna ; &i, &2> &s> the 3 pairs of legs ; tb, 

 part of the tracheal longitudinal trunks swollen into a large vesicle ; st, stigmata ; hm, honey 

 stomach ; cm, chyle stomach ; vm, Malpighian vessels ; rd, rectal glands ; ed, hind-gut. 



cells (with nuclei often branched) contain coloured concretions in which uric acid 

 is found. The Malpighian vessels occasionally have no distinct lumen ; they then 

 consist of a few rows of cells. The number of the Malpighian vessels is as varied 

 as their manner of entering the hind-gut. 



Apterygota. Malpighian vessels are wanting in lapyx and the Collemboln. In 

 Gampodca there are ca. 16, and they are here short ; in the other Thysanura they 

 are long and 4-8 in number. The tubules always unite in pairs before entering the 

 hind-gut. 



Pterygota. The Malpighian vessels are either very numerous and relatively short 

 or less numerous (2-8) and long. They are more numerous in the Dermaptera (ca. 



