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THE ANATOMY OF IXVERTEBRATED ANIMALS. 



The head is either flattened from above downward {Chi- 

 lopocla)f or from before backward {Chilogiiatha). Some 

 species are blind, but the majority have eyes, whicli are gen- 

 erally small and not very numerous ocelli, though, in some 

 cases, they are large compound eyes. There is always a pair 

 of jointed antennae. 



The majority have the mouth constructed for biting, and 

 are provided w^ith a pair of mandibles, the most important 

 peculiarity of which is that they are jointed, and thus depart 

 less from the type of the ordinary limb than do those of in- 



FiG. %.—Scolopendra Hopei (after Newport). 



A. Dorsal view of the anterior part of the body : a, antennae ; A, cephalic segment ; 

 B, basilar segment. 



B. Ventral view of the head* a, J5, as before. 



C. Under view of the cephalic segment, showing the antennae, a; the eyes, *; the 

 labrum and the mandibles, IV. 



D. The second pair of gnathites V, and the first pair of appendages of the basilar 

 segment W. 



sects, while, to the same extent, they approach the gnathites 

 of the Peripatidea. The mandibles are more modified in the 

 Chilopoda (Fig. 96) than in the Chilognatha. In the latter, 

 the second pair of gnathites form a broad four-lobed plate 

 which pla3^s the part of an under-lip, while, in the Chilopoda^ 

 they are soft and jointed, and united at their bases by a bi- 

 lobed median process (Fig. 96, v'). In the Chilognatha the 



