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enditcs may have been developed in order to prevent 

 prey from getting away between the limbs, the 

 endites being provided with special muscles to move 

 them. The prey, which the dorsal parapodia succeed 

 in raking into the middle line, is probably held, 



c 



v 



FIG. 9. First trunk limb (L. Spitzbergensis). Lettering as in former figures. 



e, sensory endites. 



and perhaps killed, by the ventral parapodia, which 

 are provided with sharp thorn-like setae, as well as 

 with long sensory hairs (Figs. 9 and 10). We can 

 further judge from their shape and from the direction of 



