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ZOOLOGY 



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and oxygenates the blood which enters the interior of the laminae 

 from the ventral sinus. 



A pair of coxal glands, situated near the base of the fifth pair 

 of appendages, are, in the embryo Scorpion, represented by tubes 

 which, like nephridia, effect a communication between the body- 

 cavity and the exterior ; in the adult Scorpion the tube assumes 

 the form of a closed gland, and its function is quite uncertain. 



The nervous system is constructed on a plan which bears a ] 

 considerable resemblance to that of the Crayfish and that of the 

 Cockroach. There is a bilobed cerebral ganglion or brain (Fig. 536, 



Irn.) from which nerves are] 

 given off to the eyes ; a nerve- ] 

 collar formed of a pair of 

 cesophageal connectives unites 

 ventrally in a sub-cesophageal 

 ganglion, forming the anterior 

 part of a ventral nerve-cord \ 

 (ne. co.}. The connectives and 

 sub-oesophageal ganglion give ; 

 rise to the nerves of the first six 

 pairs of appendages and of the 

 operculum, the pectines, and the 

 two following segments. The 

 first ganglion behind the sub- 

 oesophageal ganglion appears in 

 the eleventh segment (reckoning 

 the cephalothorax as made upj 

 of six) ; behind which a ganglion 

 occurs . regularly in each seg- 

 ment as far back as the fourth 

 of the post- abdomen. 



The organs of special sense 

 are the eyes and pectines. The 

 lateral eyes (Fig. 556) are 

 similar in character to the 

 simple eyes or ocelli of Insects. 



The two larger central eyes (Fig. 557) differ from them in having 

 the retinal cells arranged in groups as in the compound eye, but 

 resemble them in the presence of a single cuticular lens. 



Reproductive organs. In the male the testes consist of two 

 pairs of longitudinal tubules united by cross branches. The* 

 are connected with a median vas deferens, the terminal portion 

 which, provided with accessory glands, is modified to form a doubl< 

 penis ; its external opening is just behind the operculum, as 

 already noticed. There is an unpaired ovary, which is made up of 

 three longitudinal tubules with transverse connecting branches ; 

 the oviducts open on the operculum. 



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FIG. 537. Dorsal view of the internal organs 

 of Scorpion, chel. chelicer* ; hep. liver ; 

 hep. du. hepatic ducts ; mal. Malpighian 

 tubes ; mesent. mesenteron ; proct. intestine ; 

 sal. ffld. salivary glands ; stomo. stomodseum. 

 (From Leuckart, after Blanchard.) 



