144 ZOOLOGY. 



The Turlellaria are hermaphroditic, the ovaries and testes 

 with the accessory apparatus (Fig. 95) being present in thfr 

 same individual ; but in many forms the sexes are distinct. 



Little is known of the development of the flat-worms. 

 In a common marine Planarian, Stylochus eUiptica {Gira.Td), 

 which is about two centimetres long, and lives under stones- 

 between tide-marks, north of Cape Cod, the eggs are depos- 

 ited in May and June, in a thin, viscid band, on stones and 

 sea-weeds. The eggs undergo total segmentation in four or 

 five days after they are laid. The larva is round, ciliated, 

 with a caudal flagellum. In eight or ten days after the- 

 larva has hatched, it stops swimming about, and becomes a. 

 "mummy-like body," which Girard calls a "chrysalis." 

 In this state it floats about in the water. Its further his- 

 tory is unknown. 



In Leptoplana {Polycelis), according to Keferstein, the- 

 yolk undergoes total segmentation as in Stylochus ; the 

 outer layer of cells forms a blastoderm which surrounds the^ 

 more slowly growing cells within. Keferstein describes- 

 and figures the various stages by which the spherical cili- 

 ated embryo attains the form of the adult, whose devel- 

 opment seems to be less in the nature of a metaraorphosis. 

 than that of Stylochus. 



The Planarians also in some species mul- 

 tiply by fission, and when cut into pieces, 

 according to H. J. Clark, each piece may 

 eventually become a well-formed Planarian. 

 Clark figures in his " Mind in Xature" two- 

 Planarians derived from two sections of 

 Dendrocoelum lacteum, which became fully 

 developed within eleven days after the opera- 

 tion. Several Turbellarians are known to 

 undergo spontaneous fission. 



Catenula lemncB Dug6s, by transverse di- 

 Pig. g^.-ratenn- '^'ision, forms chain-like aggregations, and 

 goinl'lei'raivfekfn'; ^ ^^"''^^ African species, C. quaterna, of 

 —After schinarOa. Schmarda, has been found by him to have the- 

 same habit. Fig. 96 represents two individuals (much 

 enlarged) in partial division, and a chain of five individ- 



