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ZOOLOGY 



SECT. 



ments of the eyes. Immediately in front of the edge of the mantle 

 appear two short ridges, the beginnings of the gills {den^, and a pair 

 of folds — the posterior funnel-folds {post.f.f.) — which are formed 

 between these and the eyes, are the first rudiments of the funnel, 

 the greater part of which, however, is formed from a second pair 

 of folds^the anterior funnel-folds {ant. f f.) — developed further 

 forwards. Behind the anterior funnel-folds appear two pit-like 

 depressions, which subsequently develop into the statocysts. 



The elevations on which the eyes (eye) are situated become 

 more and more prominent. The eyes themselves are formed 



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Fli;. 703. — Two late stages in the development of IiOligo, seen from the funnel side. Ijettei'S as 

 in preceding figures. (After Korschelt and Heider.) 



from a part only of these elevations ; each is a pit which sub- 

 sequently becomes closed to form a vesicle — the optic vesicle: 

 later an ingrowth of the ectoderm over this gives rise to 

 the lens. 



The embryo covers only a part of the egg, and as it develops, it 

 withdraws itself more towards the animal pole, at which the 

 germinal disc was originally situated — a constriction, which soon 

 b(}comes very deep, separating it off from the rest of the Qgg ; the 

 latter, consisting of the greater part of the yolk enclosed in a thin 

 layer of blastoderm, forms a rounded appendage of the embryo — the 



