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tions of the lower. In the crustacea a very large 

 number of genera are alike in their youngest state. 

 From its resemblance to the adult condition of one 

 of the lowest of the crustaceans called Naiipliiis^ this 

 state is usually called the " Naiiplms stage." No other 

 group of animals passes through so many metamor- 

 phoses before reaching maturity, and each of these 

 is so well marked off from the rest, that it might be 



Fig. i3g. — Asaphus caudaUis. 



Fig. 140. — "Dudley locust' 



^or Trilobite iCalymene 



Blumenbachit), 



regarded as a generic type. Indeed, in many cases, 

 genera have been founded on these distinctions, so 

 that the same animal, at different periods of its life, 

 has been regarded not only as a distinct species, but 

 as belonging to another genus. The young of the 

 common lobster, for instance, passes through at least 

 six stages, which are so unlike each other that only 

 careful observation has settled they are not different 



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