SKCT. VI 



THE SENSORY ORGANS 



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Fig. 24 is a diagram of these water-sacs. A small 

 pore, in the shape of a fine transverse slit (see 

 Figs. 24 and 69, p. 303) in front of the eyes, is, in 

 large specimens, visible to the naked eye. This leads 



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FIG. 24. Diagram to show the water-sacs over the eyes of Apus. s, water-sacs; 

 c, canal leading into the same ; /, pore ; e, paired eye ; /;, brain ; a\ cesophagal 

 commissure ; og; optic ganglion ; w, eye-muscles. The eye is drawn in the 

 section ; in reality a median section passing through the pore passes between the 

 eyes ; (? 2 , unpaired eye receiving a branch from the water-canal. 



into a canal, which runs along the dorsal surface of 

 the unpaired " eye." Here it widens out con- 

 siderably, its upper and lower chitinous membranes 

 being in close contact, except in the median line 



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