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The endopleurites {eii.pl.) are also vertical plates, but 

 they are relatively shorter, and their inner angles give off 

 two nearly horizontal processes, one of which i)asses 

 obliquely forwards (fig. 39, B, h, fig. 42, h.p.) and unites 

 with the paraphragm of the endosternite of the somite 

 in front, while the other, passing obliquely backwards 

 (fig. 39, //), becomes similarly connected with the endo- 

 sternite of the somite behind. 



Fig. 42. — Axfuci/n JfHi-irdHlx. — A segment of the eiidophragmal system 

 (x 3). i7/;/i!. arthrophragm ; art/i. arthrodial or articular cavity; 

 r.vj/, coxopodite of the ambulatory leg ; ciipL eudopleurite ; eiu, 

 endosternite ; ej>iii, epimeron ; Jij). horizontal process of eudo- 

 pleurite ; mjj/i, mesophragm ; j^j^/i, paraphragm ; -i. sternum of 

 somite : .tc, sternal canal. 



The endopleurites of the last thoracic somite are rudi- 

 mentary, and its endosternites are small. On the other 

 hand, the mesophragmal processes of the endosternites of 

 the two posterior somites of the head (fig. 39, B, c.aj)), by 

 which the endophragmal system terminates m front, are 

 particularly strong and closely united together. They 

 tlius, with their endopleurites, form a solid partition be- 

 tween the stomach, which lies u])()n them, and tlie mass of 



