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AMPHIOXUS. 



Fig. 37. TJie gill-slits are at first wide, window-like apertures 

 in the wall of the pharynx ; and, until the formation of the atrial 



Fig. 36.-— The anterior end of an Amphioxus Larva with four primary gill-slits, 

 from the left side. (After Lankester and Willey.) x 200. 



CH, notochonl. DL, praeoral pit. ES, endostyle. GD, aperture of duet of club- 

 shaped gland. GrL, club-shaped gland. HK 1, 2, 3, 4, first, second, third, and fourth 

 primary gill-slits. ]STS, spinal cord. O, margin of mouth opening. OC, eye-sp :. 

 P C, sixth myotome of the left side. 



cavity, they open directly to the exterior. At a comparatively 

 early stage (Fig. 37), the first primary gill-slit becomes markedly 

 smaller than the succeeding ones. 



Wl< 7 MO O HK I 



Fig. 37. — The anterior end of an Amphioxus Larva with fourteen primary gill- 

 slits, seen from the right side. (After Willey.) 

 CH, notochord. DL, praeoral pit, ES, endostvle. GL, club-shaped gland. 

 GO, opening from elub-shaped gland into pharynx. HK 1, 7, 14, first, seventh, and 

 fourteenth primary gill-slits. HP 2, 7, thickened patches in which the second and 

 seventh secondary gill-slits will be formed at a slightly later stage. MD, free edge of 

 right metapleural fold. NC, neural canal. NO, anterior dilatation, or ventricle of 

 neural canal. K"S, spinal cord. O, mouth. OC, eye-spot. P 13, septum between 

 thirteenth and fourteenth myotomes. 



b. The secondary gill-slits, or the gill-slits of the adult right 

 side of the pharynx, appear later than the primary slits, and in 

 the following manner. At a stage (Fig. 37) when fourteen 



