34 IN SEC 7' A. 



ment of the abdomen of a young grasshopper, Lochs fa 

 viridissima, and they show that these organs are really 

 modified appendages and are developed from the 

 eighth and ninth abdominal segments. The letters 

 are the same as in PI. I., Fig. 9, p. lo ; k^ is distinctly 

 seen as the sternum of the eighth ring {c"), and it 

 becomes the subgenital plate (Fig. 9, k"")} 



1 See Zeit.fiir IViss. ZooL, Vol. XXV., p. 174, 1875. 



