•§> 350. THE INSECTA. ^ 453 



of these animals. The two ovaries are unilocular pouches of unequal size, 

 inserted laterallj, by means of a short oviduct, upon the vagina. The upper 

 extremity of this vagina contains sperm, after copulation, and may, therefore, 

 be regarded as a Receptaculum seminis ; while the lower portion is wide- 

 ly dilated, and may, therefore, be considered as an uterus. The upper or nar- 

 rower portion of the vagina receives two small, simple, or somewhat ramose 

 glandular tubes [Glandidae sebaceae) .^^'^ Below these glands are situated 

 the two excretory ducts of a double glandular apparatus, very voluminous 

 and multiramose, whose product serves, without doubt, to nourish the 

 larvae which are provisionally developed in the uterus. '^'^' 



With the Lepidoptera, each ovary is composed of four very long, spiral, 

 multilocular tubes. The Receptaculum sembiis <^"> is pyriform, and often 

 has a long, spiral Ductus seminalis.''-^^^ At its base opens a simple or bifur- 

 cated accessory gland, and underneath it there is always a large, double, 

 sebaceous gland, consisting of two rather long, flexuous, simple caeca. 

 These last open into the vagina, by means of a short common excretory 

 duct, and each, at their point of union, is usually dilated into a vesiculi- 

 forra reservoir. ^-^' Some Lepidoptera have, moreover, two smaller ramose 

 glands, situated near the orifice of the vagina, which secrete, perhaps, an odor- 

 ous substance that excites the copulatory act.^"' The copulatory pouch, 

 finally, is very remarkable in all the species of this order. It consists of a 

 large, pyriform reservoir, sometimes constricted in its middle, and hav- 

 ing for the reception of the penis, a canal which opens externally by a 

 special orifice situated below the vulva. In its course this canal sends 

 ofi' a small, flexuous, lateral duct, which passes into the vagina opposite the 

 mouth of the Receptaculum seminis, and thus forms a communication 

 between this hist and the copulatory pouch. ^-■"' 



With the Hymenoptera, the ovaries*-^' vary very much as to the number 

 of their component tubes, of which there are sometimes four to six, some- 

 times eight to ten, and with some species they range from twenty to a hun- 

 dred.'^' These tubes are always multilocular, and never very long. The 



IT These tubes are simple with Melophagus, and Taf. VI. K. (indistinct). Moreover, Malpighi (De 



raraoss with Hippobosca. Bombyce, 1669, p. 81, Tab. XII. tig. 1, J. K. M.) 



1* See my researches in Muller's Arch. 1837, p. had ah-eady perceived, with the silk-worm, all the 



425, and those of L. Dufour, Ann. d. Sc. Nat. VI. appendages of the vagina, and specially the copu- 



1825, p. 30S, PI. XIII., and III. 1845, p. 76, PI. III. -latory pouch with its canal of lateral communica- 



This last-mentioned naturalist has very well figured tion. With Eu/jrepia Hebe this canal has a pyri- 



the female organs of Hippobosca and Melophat^as ; form deverticulum.* 



only he is deceived relative to the glandular append- i!4 For the female genital organs of the Hymen- 

 ages of the vagina, in regarding the upper pair as optera, see L. Du/our, Recherch. sur les Orthopt. 

 a Receptaculum seminis, but which never contain &c. p. 406. 

 spermatic particles. 23 Each ovary is composed of three or four ovige- 



19 For the appendages of the female organs of the rous tubes with Xy/ocopa, Bombus, Anthophora, 



Lepidoptera, see Siebold, in MuUer's Arch. 1837, Chrysis ; of five to six with Nomada, Sapysa, 



P- ■HT. Chalcis, Vespa ; of eight to ten with Pimpla, Pa- 



-"0 The seminal receptacle has been figured in its yiiscus ; of ten to twelve with the Tenthredinidae ; 

 various stages of development by Herald (Ent- of twenty to twenty-five with 3/i/rm(ca, A'^>/(r(/d^^a 

 wickelungsgesch. d. Schmetterl. Taf. IV. fig. 1, u. y. and Banchus ; and of more than one hundred with 

 p. and Taf. XX\\) as a unicornous secreting organ. Apis. With Ckelonus the ovaries present a re- 

 See also Suckow, Auat. u. physiol. Untersuch. markable exception ; they consist each of two long 

 Taf. VI. g. g. _ flexuous tubes, which are very widely dilated at 



21 SiS Herald, loc. cit. Taf. III. fig. 1, t. z. their lower extremity. L. Dufaur (loc. cit. p. 



and the fjllowing plates; also Suckow, loc. cit. 541, PI. X. tig. 143) regards these swellings as a 



Taf. \ I. 1. 1. ]dnil of uterus in which are developed tlie larvae of 



-- Melitaea, Argynnis, Zygaena, kc. these Ichneumonidae ; but this assertion cannot be 



a3 See Herald, loc. cit. Taf. III. fig. 1, x. f. g. admitted without further research, 

 and the plates following ; also Suckow, loc. cit. 



* [ § 350, note 23.] See also for the internal and Kolliker's Zeitsch. I. 1849, p. 182. This 

 female genital organs, and especially their develop- memoir contains many new details. — Ed. 

 ment, of the Lepidoptera, Meyer, loc. cit. Siebold 



