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Cetochilus, like most free-living Copepoda, belongs to our second 

 type of cleavage. At first the cleavage is total, in later stages 

 superficial (c/. p. 109). As early as the thirty-two-cell stage, the 

 transition to the actual blastula- stage commences, the first histo- 

 logical differentiation in the different germinal layers becoming 

 perceptible. At this stage there is found a small segmentation- 

 cavity in which the food-yolk is deposited, and into which the polar 

 bodies also find their way. A similar immigration of the polar 

 bodies was noticed by Weismann and Ischikawa (No. 6) in the 



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Pig. 57. — Four stages in the development of Cetochilus (after Grobben'). a, thirty-two cell 

 stage seen from the vential side. B, later stage, same aspect; all the germinal layers are 

 already distinct. C, longitudinal section of the gastrula-stage. D, ventral aspect of the 

 gastrula-stage, in which the blastopore is closing, en, central entodenn-cell ; gm, mouth 

 of the gastrula (blastopore) ; m, inesoderm-cell ; sii, lateral entoderm cells ; uvi, primitive 

 mesoderm-cfills ; vn, anterior entodemi-cells. 



summer eggs of Bythotrephes. It is probable that the small cell 

 observed by Urbanowicz in the cleavage-cavity of Ci/dops is also 

 to be referred to the polar bodies. 



If we examine the vegetative pole at the thirty-two-cell stage of 

 Cetochilus, a decidedly bilateral arrangement of the blastomeres can 

 be recognised (Fig. 57 A). We find two cells, a larger one {ai), 

 distinguished by the coarse granulation of its protoplasm, and a 

 smaller anterior cell {vn). These two cells lie in the median plane, 



