Chap, ix.] 



OF THE SENSE OF SIGHT. 



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of the arthropods is, schematically, composed of a crystalline 

 bacillum, vrrapped in a pigmentary mass, and covered exteriorly 

 ■with a transparent chitinous lamina. This lamina connects ■with 

 the general tegumentary envelopment, and sometimes bombates 

 within so as to form a plano-convex lens. Sometimes this 



Via. 70. 



Schematic horizontal section of the eye of a sepia ; KKy cephalic cartilage ;' C, cornea ; L, 

 crystalline humour ; ei, ciliary body ; B, internal layer of the retina ; p, pigmentary layer ; 

 o, optical nerve ; go, ganglion of the optical nerve ; fc', cartilage of the globe of the eye ; 

 ik, cartilage of the iris ; to, white body ; ae, external argentine layer (after Hensen). 



chitinous crystalline substance bombates also outwards, and then 

 it is bi-convex. This simple eye, with a simple bacillum, exists 

 in the inferior crustaceans. 



In the arachnida many bacilla group themselves, cling 

 together ; they are habitually covered with one and the same 



