LAND PLANARIANS. 



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IV 



n 



uals, natural size. The same process of strobilation has 

 been carefully observed by Graff in Microstomum lineare 

 Oersted. In the chain of four individuals (Fig. 97) I indi- 

 cates the division of the first order, and II those of the 

 second order ; at the points in the zooids marked III there 

 are indications of a future third subdivision, and at IV of 

 a fourth ; so that potentially the chain con- 

 sists of sixteen zooids, and the division is 

 first indicated in the digestive tract which 

 forms subdivisions with septa reaching to 

 the body-Avails, while secondary and tertiary IV 

 month-germs appear in the division-sections m 

 (m' t m", Fig. 97). 



Huxley in his Manual of the Anatomy of 

 InA'ertebrated Animals states that in some 

 genera of Turbellarian worms " a difference 

 is observed bet.Aveen the eggs produced in 

 summer, which have a soft vitelline mem- 

 brane, and those produced later. These so- 

 called winter ova have hard shells. 



The genuine flat-Avorms are divided into 

 two suborders : Rhabdoccela and Dendroccela. 

 In the former group there is an extensible 

 pharynx, and the digestive tract is not 

 branched. The Rhabdocoala are represented 

 by Catenula, Prostomum, Microstomum, etc. 



The Dendroccela sometimes have two tenta- 

 cle-like continuations of the front end of the 

 body. The digestive canal has one anterior, two 

 posterior large, and many secondary branches, 

 and a proboscis. Here belong the Planar iaos 

 of fresh and salt water, and the Geoplanidce 

 or land-planarians, represented in the United 

 States by Rhyncodesmus sylvaticus Leidy. The only para- 

 sitic species of the order known are Stimpson's Cryptocce- 

 lum opacum, which infests the sand-cake (EcMnarachnius 

 parma), and Typhlocolax acuminata, which lives on a Holo- 

 thurian (Ghirodota) ; while Semper has described Anoplo- 

 dium Schncideri. which lives in the intestines of Stichopus 



Fig. 97. Strobi- 

 r pelf-divi- 



