CHAPTER VI. 



CLASS II. ONYCHOPHORA.* 



Tracheates with a dermomuscular body-wall, paired segmental 

 nephridia, and with numerous and similar pedigerous segments. 

 The head is not marked off from the body and bears one pair of 

 antennae, one pair of jaws and one pair of oral papillae. The 

 tracheal stigmata are diffusely scattered and there are no malpighian 

 tubes. Muscular fibres (excepting those of the jaws) unstriated. 



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 Paris, 1907 (Ann. des Sci. Nat. (9), 2 and 5). Dendy, A., On the Oviparous 

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 Onychophora from the Siamese Malay States, Q.J.M.S. xliv, 1901, 

 p. 473, and On the Development of Eoperipatus, ibid, xlv, 1901, p. 1. 

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