258 THE ANATOMY OF INVERTEBRATED ANIMALS. 



needles in a watch-glass full of sea-water, one is pretty sure 

 to be found whence a number of active little JV^aiq^Uus-Yike 

 aniaialcules are set free (Fig. 68, A). Each presents a some- 



FiG. 68.—^. Larva of Balanus halanoides on leavincr the egij (after Spence-Bate"). 

 B. Attached pupa of i.g7;«s J.^^.s^^m/^s (after Darwin): «, anteimary apodemes ; ^, 

 gut-formed gland, with cement-duct ruuuiug to the autenna. 



w^hat triangular body, produced in the middle line posteriorly 

 and at its anterior lateral angles. The mouth is situated on 

 a proboscidiform projection placed nearly in the centre of 

 the body, and in the midst of three pairs of natatory limbs, 

 of Avhich the two posterior pairs have bifid extremities. In 

 front of the mouth, either in this stage, or after one or two 

 moultings, two filaments are often developed. A single eye- 

 spot is situated in front of the bases of the anterior append- 

 ao;es. After moultino* several times the larva assumes a 

 new form, passing into its second stage. The carapace is 

 now oval and compressed, so as more nearly to resemble that 

 of a Daphnia or Gypris. There are two eyes. The first 

 pair of swimming appendages of the Naxiplius are converted 

 into antenniform organs, each provided with a sucker, and 

 the rudiments of the six pairs of cirri make their appearance 

 behind the mouth.^ 



In the third stage, the larva is, as Mr. Darwin states, 

 " much compressed, nearly of the shape of a (Jifpris or mus- 

 cle-shell, with the anterior end the thickest, the sternal sur- 

 face nearly or quite straight, and the dorsal arched. Almost 

 the whole of what is externally visible consists of the cara- 



* Accordini^ to Glaus (" Grundziige der Zooloorie," 3te Auflasre, p. 460), the 

 second pair of appendagres disappears, and the third gives rise to the mandi- 

 bles. In this case the antennarv organs represent autennules, and the limbs 

 of the Cirri pede NaupUus correspond with those of the Copepod and Branchi- 

 opod JVauplius. 



