32 THE VOYAGE OF 11. .M.S. CHALLENGER. 



ami is nothing rise but the cavity (A) which we observed also in the peduncles of the 

 other Lepadidse, and which can be tracedas a continuation of a part ofthecoelom. In the 

 superior cart of the peduncle (PL V. fig. 8) this wide canal (measuring here O'D by 0'5G mm.) 

 has an oval shape, and is completely filled with a very delicately granulated mass, which I 

 think more resembles blood serum than any other substance. The connective tissue 

 surrounding this canal, and especially the interior of the peduncle, has a very spongy 

 structure; as I shall point out again when treating of the development of the ovaries 

 within the peduncle, 1 think the contents of the duet and the tissue which surrounds 

 it serve to nourish the ovaries. 



At a short distance — about 3 mm. — from the superior extremity the duct begins to 

 gel narrower; the space occupied by the delicately granulated substance measures now 

 only 0'22 mm. in diameter. The spongy mass of connective tissue has grown much 

 thicker, and forms especially towards the interior of the peduncle a very thick wall ; for 

 the first time here cement-ducts are seen within this thickened portion of the wall of the 

 duct (PI. V. fig. 9). Between this wall and the central mass of the granulated substance 

 a layer of vesicles can be distinguished. I think they are formed by the cement poured 

 nut into the canal and pressed between the wall and the central mass. One millimetre 

 and a half farther down the duct becomes still narrower ; it now has with its wall a diameter 

 of 0'43 mm. only. The granulated substance has almost totally disappeared, but the 

 interior of the w r all is everywhere covered with large and small cement vesicles. Below 

 the middle of the peduncle, at numerous places, larger cement-ducts pour out their content-, 

 into this canal, which eventually has in all respects the shape of one of the wider cement- 

 ducts such as are found also in the interior of the peduncle. In the undermost part of the 

 peduncle it runs no longer close to the rostral side, but is observed in the centre of the 

 peduncle. It there quite resembles two other larger cement-ducts which run longitudinally 

 through the peduncle. Probably these ducts are open at their inferior extremities, which, 

 so far as I could make out, are not continued up to the base of the peduncle ; the latesl 

 sections I prepared of the peduncle do not show the ducts in the connective tissue. 



So we see that in Scalpellum regium, the cement-ducts do not run within the ccelom- 

 cavity, or what I feel inclined to consider as its homologue, but that this cavity in its 

 most inferior part is itself changed into such a cement-duct. The other ducts stand in open 

 communication with the one at the rostral side. A second difference is seen in the 

 structure of the wall of the ducts; the smooth-lined sheath of the ducts in Scalpellum 

 vulgare, which made me compare the substance of which that wall is built up with chitin, 

 is nowhere to lie observed in Scalpellum regium. No doubt the investigation of other 

 species of Scalpellum ami of other genera of Cirripedia will show that the cement- 

 apparatus of this group of Crustaceans presents many more variations than would have 

 been expected beforehand. The knowledge of these variations is no doubt of great 

 interest, yet it would be of much more importance still, if the morphological significance 

 of the apparatus were more apparent. 



