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Cestoids especially, which have no body-cavity, as the Tar- 

 digrades or Linguatulce do to the higher Arachnida. 



Each species of Dicyema and Dicyemella (Fig. 93) com- 

 prises two sorts of individuals, difiering externally, one (the 

 Nematogene) producing vermiform embryos, the other 

 {Rhombogene) infusoriform (but many-celled) young. The 

 Nematogenes produce germs which undergo total segmen- 

 tation, and assume a gastrula condition. After the closure 

 of the primitive opening, the body elongates, and the worm- 

 like form of the adult is finally attained, when it passes 

 through the body-walls of the parent. 



The germs of the Ehombogenes arise endogenously in 

 special cells lodged in the axial cell, and called " germi- 

 genes." The germ-like cells undergo segmentation, and 

 then form small spheres, which become infusoriform em- 

 bryos. The worm-like young is destined to be developed 

 and live in the Cephalopod where it has been born, while 

 the infusorian-like young probably performs the oflQce of 

 disseminating the species. It is possible that in those ani- 

 mals, such as the Cetacea, which feed on cuttlefishes, these 

 worms (the !N"ematogenes at least) may pass into a genuine 

 vermian form. 



Class I. — PLATYHELMiifrTHES {Flat-worms, Tape-viorms, 

 Fluke-worms, etc.) 



Order 1. Turlellaria. — In any pond of standing water 

 one can find on the under side of sticks or stones, small 

 dark flat worms. These are Planarian ^ 

 worms. The common dark-brown, 

 almost black Planaria torva Miiller 

 (Fig. 93) is about six or eight milli- 

 metres long, oblong, flat, with two 

 black eye-spots, with an oblong oval pig 93 pig 94 



space in front of each eye. A form ^^^t" ^^fSS" 

 allied to this is a perfectly white Plana- 

 rian called Dendroccelum lacteum Oersted, which lives under 



