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DR. F. E. BEDDARD ON THE 



In the rostellum of Amabilia, however, there is no trace of any 

 separate hooklets ; the material of which the cup-like ring is 

 formed is continuous throughout. I am inclined to believe that 

 the shape of the entire ring is represented in the figure referred 

 to. For it has the appearance of an unfractured body and there 

 are no further traces in adjacent sections. It has, I think, been 

 uncut by the razor and slightly displaced. 



Text-figure 2. 



More highly magnified view of horizontal section of Amabilia. 



h. Chitinous ring, possibly representing a fused row or rows of hooks, lying 

 within rostellum (r.). s. Sucker. 



§ Muscular Layers of Body. 



The longitudinal layers of < the musculature are depicted by 

 Cohn * as arranged in two series of bundles of fibres disposed with 

 fair regularity, and as continuous right round the body. Here 

 and there the row of longitudinal muscles consists of but a single 



* Loc. cit. Taf. xiv. fig. 1. 



