402 S. I. Smith—Early stages of the Lobster. 
all been drawn from specimens preserved in alcohol, as there 
was no opportunity for studying them while alive. 
First Stage—The larve of the first stage observed 
figures. The eyes are bright blue: the anterior portion an 
the lower margin of the carapax and the bases of the legs are 
speckled with orange; the lower margin, the whole of the 
penultimate, and the basal portion of the ultimate segment of 
the abdomen, are brilliant reddish orange. They are very 
active; swimming about very much like the species of Myss 
have the principal branch cylindrical, not flattened and ap a> 
to the inner mouth organs as in the adult; the exognathus 
: : as 
maxillipeds are pediform, the endognathus as long 2 
and much resembling the endopodi of the posterior legs, mie 
the exognathus is like the — of all the legs, being. 
i i hus 
along the edges with long plumose hairs. e epignathus 
i The rior thoracic legs, which 1 
y Milne Ba 
* To prevent confusion the terms here used are those proposed by pendages: 
wards to designate the different branches of the cephalic and thoracic as ch (a8 
. for the main branch of a leg; exopodus, for the accessory exognatl 
fig. D); epipodus, for the flabelliform appendage (5); and endognathus, 
and epignathus, for the correspondin 
