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the head or the thorax, the segments of the latter being en- 

 tirely free, while the former is similar in shape to that of an 

 Insect, or Edriophthalmous Crustacean, and carries two large 

 stalked eyes, two antennules (singularly modified in the 

 male), two antennae, a pair of mandibles, and two pairs of 

 maxillie. 



In Estheria and Limnetis^ the males are met with in full 

 proportion to, and may be even more numerous than, the 

 females. No males are knowm in Limnadia gigas^ although 

 thousands have been examined, while, in L. ^tanleyana^ 

 more males than females have been found. In JBranchipus^ 

 males are fewer than females ; in Artemia, they occur only 

 at rare intervals. In Daphnia, the males are few, and appear 



Fig. 65.—Limnetis brachyurus (after Grube).— The upper left-hand fiffure is the 

 male, the other the female; one valve of the carapace in each case beinij removed. 

 J.', Antennules. J.', Antennae. ^, Young larva. ^, The same further advanced, 

 c, head ; o, eye ; d, carapace ; c*, bodv. A '. Antennae. M, Mandibles. d\ great, 

 plate (labrum ?) which covers the mouith. 



only at certain seasons of the year. But notwithstanding 

 the rarity or absence of the males in many of these genera, 

 reproduction proceeds with great rapidity. The ova are capa- 

 ble of development without fecundation ; and isolated females 



