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tailed Cercarice, or to another generation of Sporocysts or Redicv* 

 which then produce the Cercarise. 



The Cercarice are nothing else than Distomum larva?, which 

 eventually reach (often only after two migrations, an active and a 

 passive one) the final host, where they become sexually mature. 

 They are furnished with an exceedingly motile caudal appendage, 

 frequently with a buccal spine, and occasionally with eyes, and they 

 present in the rest of their organization great resemblances to the 

 adult Distomum, excepting that the generative organs are not 

 developed. In this form they leave independently the body of the 

 Redia or Sporocyst and of the host of the latter, and move about 

 in the water, partly creeping and partly swimming. Here they 

 soon find a new host (Snail, Worm, Insect larva, Crustacean, Fish, 

 Batrachian), into which they penetrate, aided by the powerful 



6 vibrations of their tail ; they then 



lose the latter and encyst. 



The Cercarice from the interior 

 of the snail thus become distributed 

 amongst a number of hosts, and each 

 of them gives rise to an encysted 

 young Distomum without generative 

 organs. This young Distomum mi- 

 grates passively with the flesh of its 

 host into the stomach of another 

 animal, and thence, freed from its 

 cyst, into the organ (intestine, bladder 

 FIG. 256. - a , Embryo of i>; } ,M;*c,,, etc -)> in which it becomes sexually 



iubclavatus (after G. Wagener). mature. 

 D, Alimentary canal ; Ex, excre- m , 



tory system. 4, Embryo of Mo- Ihere. are, then, as a rule, three 

 nostomum mntabiie (after v. sic- different hosts in the organs of which 



bold). P, Pigment spots; , 



redia in the interior of the embryo, the different developmental stages 



(Redia or Sporocyst, encysted form, 



sexually mature animal) of the Distomum bury themselves. The 

 transitions from one host to another are effected partly by inde- 

 pendent migration (embryos, Cercariaj), partly by passive migration 

 (encysted young Distomum). 



Modifications of the ordinary course of development may, however, 

 take place these may be either complications or simplifications. The 

 embryo at hatching may contain a single Redia (as in Mcniostomum 



* In Ccrcaria cystophora from Plnnorbix mury hiatus ; according to G. 

 Wagener, the primary a.sexual individual is a fynriiryst, the secondary a Jlcdln. 



