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antaget en pigformig Cliararter, dannende den umid- 

 delbare Fortsættelse af Leddet. Den terminale Fort- 

 sats af Overlæben, ligesom de nu stærkt forlængede 

 Halefortsatser viser sig rundtom tæt besatte med 

 korte Pigge. Paa det bagre Afsnit af Legemet be- 

 mærkes de for.ste Anlæg til Rygskjoldet og til de 

 6 forreste Par Fodder. Alle disse Dele er dog endnu 

 dækkede af Larveluulen, som uden nogensombelst 

 Afbrydelse strækker sig over dem. Rygskjoldet 

 (den senere Skal) har Formen af 2 .smaa, endnu ikke 

 med hiuanden dorsalt forbundne afrundede Folde 

 helt fortil, i li vis Indre den første Antydning til 

 Skalkjertelen lader sig paavise. Fodderne har endnu 

 kun ITdseende af en Eække af t) ubetydelige knop- 

 fonnige Fremspring langs Siderne af Kroppen umid- 

 delbart bag Anlægget til Eygskjoldet. De aftager 

 suceessivt i Størrelse bagtil, og de 2 .sidste Par er 

 kun meget svagt antydede. I det indre af det sær- 

 deles gjennemsigtige Legeme sees nu Tarmkanalen 

 med stor Tydelighed. Den har bagtil sondret en 

 vel begrændset, stærkt muskuløs Endetarm, og gaar 

 fortil ud i 2 korte blindsækformigelTdvidninger: den 

 første Begyndelse til den senere saa complicerede 

 Lever. De forskjellige Muskler, der tjener til 

 Aarernes og Mandibularfoddernes Bevægelse kau nu 

 med stor Tydelighed adskilles, og Larven bevæger 

 sig ogsaa i dette Stadium ad.skilligt mere energiskt 

 end i de tidligere. 



I det næste her afbildede Stadium (Fig. 5) har 

 Larven en Længde af 0,87 mm, og viser en videre 

 Udvikling af det bagre Afsnit af Legemet, som nu, 

 inclusive de terminale Forsatser, er over 3 Gange 

 saa langt som det forreste. De Dele, der paa fore- 

 gaaende Stadium, viste sig umiddelbart indenfor 

 Larvehuden, nemlig Rygskjoldet og de 6 Par Fod- 

 knuder, træder ni\ alle frit frem fra Legemets Over- 

 tlade og har tiltaget noget i Størrelse. De sammen- 

 satte Øine er ligeledes betydelig større og er ryk- 

 kede noget nærmere sammen, skjøndt de eiulni; er 

 skilte i Midten ved et tydeligt Mellemrum. Ethvert 

 af dem er nu omgivet af en klar Bræm, hvori senere 

 de enkelte Synselementer udvikler sig. 1 Bygningen 

 af de 3 Par oprindelige Nauplius-Lemmer viser ikke 

 Larven nogen væsentlige Forskjelligheder fra samme 

 hos det sidst beskrevne Stadium. En Foler af Iste 

 Par er af bildet meget stærkt forstørret Fig. 5 a ; 

 den viser, som det vil sees, fuldkommen det samme 

 rudimentære Udseende som hos de yngste Larver. 



Fig. 6 fremstiller en Larve i et senere Stadium, 

 seet fra venstre Side, med den tilsvai'ende Aare 

 udeladt, for at vise de af denne dækkede Dele af 

 Hovedet tydeligere. Larvens Længde er lidt over 

 1 mm. De 2 Afsnit af Legemet viser sig meget 



distinctly defined, and the bristle projecting from 

 the last joint but one has acquired a spiniform 

 character, forming the immediate continuation of 

 the joint. The terminal protuberance of the labrum, 

 as also the now greatly elongated caudal projections, 

 appear thickl}- covered all round with short .spines. 

 On the posterior section of the body, the earliest 

 rudiments of the carapace and of the (> foremost 

 pairs of legs are observable. All these parts, how- 

 ever, are still covered by the larval skin, which is 

 stretched over them without any interruption what- 

 ever. The carapace (tlie future shell) is in the 

 shape of 2 small, rounded folds right in front, and 

 not connected dorsally with one another, inside 

 which the earliest indication of the shell-gland may 

 be made out. The legs have still only the appea- 

 rance of a row of 6 small, bl^d-like projections 

 along the sides of the bod3% immediately behind 

 the rudiment of the carapace. They diminish in 

 size successively behind, and the last 2 pairs are 

 only very faintly indicated. In the interior of the 

 exceedingly transparent body, the intestinal canal 

 is now seen with great distinctness. Posteriorly, 

 a well-defined, very muscular rectum has been di- 

 vided off, and in front, it forms 2 short cæcal expan- 

 sions, — the earliest commencement of the subse- 

 quentlj' so complicated liver. The difierent muscles 

 employed in the motion of the oars and the mandi- 

 bular legs, can now be very clearly distinguished, 

 and the larva moves much more energetically in 

 this stage than in the earlier ones. 



In the next .stage represented here (fig. 5) the 

 larva has a length of 0.87 mm. and exhibits a 

 further development of the posterior section of the 

 body, which now, inclixding the terminal pi'ojections, 

 is more than 3 times as long as the anterior sec- 

 tion. Those parts which in tlie preceding stage 

 appeared immediately within the larval skin, viz. 

 the carapace and the 6 pairs of pedal buds, now 

 all })roject freely from the surface of the liody, and 

 have somewhat increased in size. The compound 

 eyes are also considerably' larger, and have moved 

 a little nearer together, tliough they are still sepa- 

 rated in the middle by a distinct space. They are 

 both surrounded by a clear rim, in which the visual 

 elements are subsecpiently developed. In the struc- 

 ture of the 3 pairs of original nauplius limbs tlie 

 larva presents no essential difference from those in 

 the last-described stage. One antenna of the 1st 

 pair is shown, very highly magnified, in fig. 5 a; 

 as will l)e seen, it presents exactly the same rudi- 

 mentary appearant'C as in the youngest larva. 



Fig. (> rej)resents a larva in a later stage, seen 

 from the left side, with the left oar omitted in order 

 to show moi'e distinctly those parts of the head 

 which it covers. The length of the larva is a little 

 over 1 mm. The 2 sections of the body appear 



