THE EGG-CAPSULE. 



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men (or specimens) is much smaller in size. This difference, therefore, could hardly 

 prove a matter merely of age. Another capsule (Chilean), fig. 150, is again quite 

 unlike the specimen figured by Jaekel. It is almost a third larger in size, but nar- 





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Fig. 15 B. Egg-capsule of Callorhynchus. (Quoy and Caimard.) From Cape of Good Hope. 



(Ventral aspect.) One-half actual size. 

 Fig. ISC. Egg-capsule of Callorhynchus. (Peron.) From Australia. (Ventral aspect.) 



One-half actual size. 



rower proportionately. Its emphasized rugae arising from the opercular hinge are 

 more nearly transverse, and, unlike any other capsule of Callorhynchus known to the 

 writer, it presents a thick, opaque case, margined by a thin, transparent web. In 



