place in the adult and the blidder ia very much brano/ied. 



If the flruae 3<?ll8, capillaries, ^coesnory collecting 



tubules and oo 11 et ting tubules could be accurately 



in th* adult I should judiT.e that they tvntfld be* the 



in number in 5 similar in pattern. The great increase in 



the si ate of the idult o /e r the oerearia would hare tc be 



met, so far as draining the wastes from the? bcd$r ia con- 





 earned, by the fiao tubules of the branohe of Uie muscular 



A ?1*W ntltt* f^l^MMI 



*je bl 



As t'vte<I pirei^iouely, T^OOB^ (1899), Luhe (1909), and 

 others hire undoubtedly placed two, p*rhr*pti raore species 

 und^r tVie nam^ So)ii.n.QS tr^ma reyr :lutum ( SjjjL n tt-.i4UE> e c)> in rt turn 



I*ooss (1899, p 684) 0un B up the diaousaion conerning 

 the >Tiowl*j<*4/.5e cf thit epeoiee '8K 1 plHoe >fhat 1 crnsiaer 



at - t>*o different ^p^ci^s together* In the first 



. 

 - lionto in which he find*? the t^o t>pti? are muoh 



different. ie finds in a ehr-re bird of the I/imicclae 



*-*--*- . . _ 



other type he finds? in the 



io goo**?* If this were the rnly difference it 

 hardly be enough to rnaVe tm) distinct ttpeoiea t 

 peoifiity of heste is probably not ao rreat M usually 



indicated. }iut on examination the number cf collar spine* 



s . ^ 



is found to be entirely different in number, the one found 



in the gooae, he 9ho*fl to h;*ve thirty eeTn spines, while 

 t>ie ot^ier frrta the ?*hore bird to h^ve but thirty -four spines. 

 Furthetmor* the length, the Bhape and the arran ement of 

 the grpinee are entirely different. In one tlie smaller 

 inner spinea are not present while the other ha* them* The 

 clumping or crowding of the ventral spines on each Bide is 



