CAMBARUS. 15 



Peculiarities of the Yotivr/ Stages of Canitmnis. — The young Canibarus, like 

 the young Astacus, Avhen it leaves the egg is devoid of appendages on the 

 first and sixth abdominal somites. The telson is not divided by a trans- 

 verse suture. I have examined specimens of C. rnstieus when but four milli- 

 meters in length, evidently just released from the egg. They have much 

 the same appearance as the embryo o£ Astacus fiiviat His just before hatching, 

 as figured by Kathke.* The cephalothorax is very large in proportion to the 

 abdomen, and spherical ; the rostrum is bent down between the eyes ; the 

 antennae are laid back closely upon the breast. All of the appendages are 

 soft, weak, and flexed beneath the sternum. There is no vestige of a gill on 

 the last thoracic somite any more than in the adult Cambarus. The telson 

 is a thick oval plate, entirely destitute of marginal sotaj, such as are seen 

 fringing the telson in recently hatched young of Astacus figured by Huxley 

 on page 220 of " The Crayfish " ; agreeing in this respect with the telson 

 of the embryo of Astacus as shown in Plate II. fig. 25, of Rathke's memoir. 

 I have no doubt that the newly hatched young of Astacus figured by Huxley 

 has undergone one ecdysis since leaving the egg, whereby the embryonic 

 cuticle has been discarded. 



Young specimens of C. Ctar/ni, seven millimeters long, taken from under 

 the abdomen of the parent, have acquired the general form of the adult. 

 The swimmerets, or posterior abdominal appendages, are well developed, 

 while in the European Astacus patlipes, ten days old and eleven millhneters 

 in length, these appendages are enclosed within the notched telson, from 

 which they ai'e set free after the second or third moult, judging from speci- 

 mens received from the College de France. Specimens of C. gracilis, nine 

 millimeters long, and C. Bartonii, ten millimeters long, still under the pro- 

 tection of the parent, have the swimmerets perfectly expanded, and even 

 show the transverse suture of the telson. It seems ^^robable, from a com- 

 parison of these Cambari with the young of European Astaci, that the devel- 

 opment of the former goes on more rapidly after leaving the egg than that 

 of the latter. 



It is interesting to observe that in the young C. Clarldi above mentioned 

 the areola is moderately wide in the middle, where it is i-educed to a line in 

 the adult ; the lateral spines of the rostrum are well developed, the acumen 

 long and acute. In all the recently hatched Cambari which I have seen, the 

 legs and claws are long and slender compared with the adult. 



* Uutersucliungeu iiber die Bilduiig mid Eiitwickelung des Flusskrebses, Tab. I. fig. 10, Tab. II. fig. 25. 



