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three regions can be distinguished. Examine a tube and see 

 the size of its outer openings. Specimens may be made to live 

 in tubes of glass, bent to correspond to their tubes, and their 

 normal movements may thus be studied in aquaria. What 

 must be the source of the animal's food. 



1. The anterior region. Identify ten modified parapodia, 

 the fourth of which is supplied with a group of much stouter 

 setse. Observe that the funnel-like mouth is placed dorsally 

 and surrounded ventrally and laterally with flaring peristomial 

 lips. Find the pair of peristomial cirri. The region between 

 these cirri represents the prostomium. 



2. The middle region consists of five somites. The first, 

 the eleventh segment, is marked by the great pair of wings 

 which are used to bring food to the mouth. Their dorsal sur- 

 faces are grooved and supplied with cilia, as is the median dorsal 

 line. Hence a current of water passes continually toward the 

 mouth. The twelfth somite is marked by a dorsal and a ven- 

 tral sucker, which are modified parapodia. Somites thirteen, 

 fourteen, and fifteen carry notopodial folds or fans, for keeping 

 up a stream of water through the tube. Their neuropodia are 

 mere knobs. 



3. The posterior region is less highly modified. Of how 

 many segments does it consist? Notice their gradual diminu- 

 tion in size. Homologize the parts of their appendages. 



4. The living Chaetopterus contains a green coloring-matter 

 and is very phosphorescent. A commensal polynoid often lives 

 in its tube. 



A drawing is desirable. 



Lillie: Observations and Experiments Concerning the Elementary Phe- 

 nomena of Embryonic Development in Chsetopterus. Jour. Exp. Zool., 

 3, 1906. 



AMPHITRITE ORNATA. 



This belongs to the family Terebellidse and lives under stones, 

 or in mud or sand, along shore in stout muddy tubes. 



1. Find the prostomium, which forms an upper lip and bears 

 a transverse group of long, retractile tentacles. 



