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time clings to the pleopods of the mother by means of the peculiarly 

 hooked chelae of its first pair of legs. 



The development of the principal internal organs must be 

 referred to very briefly. From the ectoderm arise, no't only the 

 epidermis of the adult, but the epithelium of the gullet and 

 stomach and of the large intestine, the epithelium of the gills, the 

 nervous system, the vitreous cells and retinulse of the eyes, and 

 the epithelium of the auditory sac. From the endoderm arises 

 the epithelium of the small intestine and of the digestive glands, 



FIG. 412. Embryo of Astacus after development of thoracic appendages. A, eyes ; a\. an- 

 tennule ; 0%. antenna ; ab. abdomen ; g, archicerebrum and ganglion of antennule ; go, optic 

 ganglion ; I. labrum ; m. mandible ; mx\. mx^. maxilla? ; t. 1 8, thoracic appendages ; 

 t. telson ; ts, carapace. (From Lang's Comparative Anatomy.) 



the latter being formed as tubular branching outgrowths of the 

 archenteron. The connective-tissues, the muscles, the vascular 

 system, the gonads, and perhaps the kidneys, are all of mesodermal 

 origin. 



2. DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERS AND CLASSIFICATION. 



The Crustacea are Arthropods in which the five l anterior seg- 

 ments are fused with the prostomium to form the head, while the 

 rest are usually divisible into two regions, the thorax and the 

 abdomen. More or fewer of the thoracic segments may be fused 

 with the head to form a cephalothorax. The head may bear a 



1 Or four if the antenmilary region is counted as part of the prostomium. 



