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mantles of adult individuals and developing into the so-called 

 compleniental males. 



Certain Cirripedes, viz. certain species of Sccdpellum and 

 Ibla and all the Acrothoracica, are dioecious. It is impossible 

 to decide at present whether these species retain the primitive 

 dioecious condition of the ancestral Cirripedes, or whether they 

 too have been derived from an hermaphrodite state, but in the 

 present state of knowledge they hardly affect the validity of 

 the theory that has been proposed to account for the nature of 

 the compleniental males and the hermaphrodite individuals. 



Order IV. Ostracoda. 



The Ostracoda are small Crustacea, the body consisting of 

 very few — about eight — segments, and being completely enclosed 

 in a carapace, which has the form of a bivalve shell. Develop- 

 ment is direct, without a Nauplius stage. 



The Ostracoda ^ are marine and fresh- water animals that 

 can be divided into several families, differing slightly in habits 

 and in structures correlated with those habits. 



The Cypridae and Cytheridae include all the fresh-water 

 and a vast majority of marine genera, adapted for a sluggish 

 life among water-plants, though some can swim with consider- 

 able activity. The common CypHs 

 and C'andona of our ponds and streams 

 are familiar instances. The move- 

 ments of these animals are effected 

 by means of the two pairs of uni- 

 ramous pediform antennae which move 

 together and in a vertical straight line. yig. U.-^Candona reptans. A, 

 In the Cypridae (Fig. 74) there are, ^^1^?^, ^2nd 'Le^iaV! 

 besides the mandibles, two pairs of c, walking legs. (After Baini.) 

 maxillae, a pair of walking legs, and, 



lastly, a pair of appendages, which are doubled up into the 

 carapace, and are used for cleaning purposes. In the marine 

 Cytheridae there is only one maxilla, the last three appendages 



1 Glaus, Vntersucliuncjen zur Erforschuiuj des CrustaceensysUms, Wlen, 

 1876. Brady and Norman, ".MonograiJi of the Marine and Fresh-Water 

 Ostracoda of the N. Atlantic," Trans. B. Dublin Soc. (2) iv., 1889, p. 63. 

 Miiller, Fauna und Flora G. von Neapel, Monogr. x.xi., 1894; " Deutschlands 

 Siisswasser-Ostracoden," Chun's Zoologica, xii., 1900. 



