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garded it as an olfactory organ, as did also Treviranus, 

 Fabricius, Scarpa, Brandt, Milne Edwards, and, in fact, 

 the older naturalists generally. The discovery of its 

 true nature is due to Farre,* was confirmed by Huxley "f 

 and Leuckart, and is now generally admitted. It is 

 a sac situated in the base, or -first segment, of the 

 lesser pair of antennae, which is slightly dilated. In 

 some species the sac communicates freely with the 



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Fig, 59.— Part of Tvall of auditory sac of lobster {Astacus marinus) ; after Hensen. 

 a. Thickened bars in tlie membrane of tlie sac ; rj, first row of auditory hairs; ti\ 

 eerond row of auditory hairs ; W\ third row of atiditory hairs ; n"', fourth row of 

 auditory hairs i e, grains of sand, serving as otolithes. 



water by means of an orifice situated towards the inner 

 and anterior margin, and guarded by rows of fine 

 hairs. In othprs the orifice is closed, but its position 

 is always marked, as the auditory sac is at this point 

 connected with the skin. 



Both contain otolithes. Those of the closed sacs are 

 generally rounded ; while, on the contrary, those of 



* Philosophical Transactions, 1843. 



t Ann. and Mag. of Natural History, 1851. 



