JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPICAL SCIENCE. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIV, 
Illustrating Mr. Saville Kent’s paper on Appendicularia, and 
the Larval condition of an Acanthocephaloid Scolead 
from the Coast of Portugal. 
Fig. 
1.—Appendicularia sp., nat. size. 
2.—The same enlarged, showing an anterior chamber filled with spherica 
ova, and a posterior one, coloured orange, containing spermatic 
elements. 4. Indicates the aperture of this last chamber. 
3.—Another individual in which the walls of the anterior chamber have 
given way and collapsed, releasing the ova through the irregularly 
outlined fissure a. c. Indicates the ciliary band now visible, sub- 
servient to effecting the evacuation of the spermatozoons. 4. The 
aperture of the spermatic chambers, as in the last figure. 
4.—Spermatozoons, clustered and separate, highly magnified. 
5.—Larva of Echinorhynchus? Nat. size. 
6, 7.—Two individuals greatly enlarged. Descriptions of these last are 
postponed for future publication. 
