TRACHE.-K. 



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cf the body (fig. 66 a, b) (stigmata of Insects, Spiders), or they 

 may be more restricted in number, and communicate also with 

 cavities of complicated structure which are used for other functions 

 (nasal cavities of Vertebrates^. In the aquatic larva? of certain 



Fin. 67ff.- -T.arva of an Ephemeral fly with seven pairs of tracher.1 ofi'i 

 Cf, slightly magnified ; Tk, isolated tracheal gill strongly magnified. 



FIG. 67i. Tracheal sys- 

 tem at the sides of the 

 alimentary canal of 

 an Agrion larva (after 

 L. Dufour). Ttt, main 

 tracheal trunk ; Et, 

 tracheal gills ; Na, the 

 three simple eyes. 



Insects (Ephemeridse, Libellulidae) the tracheae may be without any 

 external openings. In such cases processes of the body filled with 

 a close network of tracheae, which take up oxygen from the water, 

 and are known as tracheal gills, are developed (fig. 67 a, b}. In rare 

 instances tracheal gills are developed on the wall of the rectum, and 



