186 ZOOLOGY. 



The Polyzoa are divided primarily into the Entop7'octa, 

 represented by Lozosoma alone, in which the vent is situated 

 witliin the circle of tentacles, and the Edoprocta, in which 

 the vent lies outside of the lophophore — a group comprising 

 all the higher Polyzoa [OymnolcBmata and Phyladolcemata). 



The development of the Polyzoa is not very complicated. 

 In the marine forms, as studied by Barrels, the germ passes 

 through a morula stage ; after which the cells are arranged 

 into two halves, separated by a crown of cilia ; at this stage 

 it is called a Uastula. At the time of birth the ciliated germ 

 is a disk-shaped gastrula, with two opposite faces or ends, 

 separated by the crown, one (aboral) bearing in its centre 

 the mouth-opening. This ciliated free-swimming top-like 

 gastrula stage is called a troclwsphere. 



After swimming about as ciliated larvas (trochospheres), 

 the shell or ectocyst develops, and the larva becoming station- 

 ary, the cystid forms, its calcareous shell develops, and finally 

 the polypide is indicated, and the primitive cell is gradually 

 formed. 



As seen in Phalangella flaiellans, the larva, after becoming 

 fixed to some object, consists of a white pyriform mass, 

 closely enveloped by an ectocyst, with numerous fat globules 

 between the latter and the white mass. The ectocyst swells 

 into a discoidal sac, with endocyst, ectocyst, and an external 

 zone, while the internal whitish mass transforms into the 

 polyi^ide. The discoidal sac formed by the endocyst consti- 

 tutes simply the basal disk of the primitive cell. The future 

 opening of the cell appears on the upper surface of the cell. 

 The budding out of the secondary cells of the polyzoarium 

 or corm then takes place. It begins by the appearance of a 

 cell placed in front and below the primitive cell, and which 

 borders it on each side ; its secondary cell then divides into 

 two, each of which successively gives origin to three cells, 

 and we thus arrive at an Idmonea stage ; and finally the 

 Plialangella stage is reached, the process being a dichoto- 

 mous mode of budding quite analogous to that which pro- 

 duces the broad, flattened corm of Escharina. 



The development of Menibranipora pilosa, which is very 

 abundant on our shores, growing on sea-weeds, is of singu- 



