No. 63S] MELIBE LEON IN A (GOULD) 243 



A large number of eggs were present in each capsule 

 of the first nidosome (Figs. 4^7), and all developed into 



embryos which liuallv went thn»nuh iiictaiiiorplK.sis. hi 



The cause was perhaps hick ol spcminio/da. Dnniin' 

 copulation, the spermatozoa bcconii' stori'<l m tiic spn ina- 

 totheea but also wander up tlie iitcius ;i> inr ;i> the pi-o^- 

 tatc uland (Ti- 11, spf , <>nl ,n i 1 li , n |.i .1. 

 nblv r.Ttili/.r.l u-hilc passinu- .Icwn the iitrnis. ut.. nv 

 whilr ill thr si)..niiat<.thrca. .■/./.. as inaiiv ru-s actnallv 

 l)ass int.) this ..iit^pockrtiim' of th<' iihTus. tin- >pennato- 

 tlu(a 111 IN tin 1, tuM 1, I. mud <.\o .p imi itn'liuM The 

 oiih i.M 111^ oi , ,^.,1,1-111, h IMM i/iiion pMK,>^> m the 

 eii'g must he the plixsical ('(yiKlitioii ot the r-u'. which de- 

 termines the nrcpti..ii or tlie fmictioii ,.f the s].i.rm: as 

 all (uu., undM nitui.il ( ond.t lui.., contaiiiMl in nm iiid 

 tlh xaiiK (apMiK. aiKl. iixh m1 in h. .iitii. iii.h^^.niu 

 throim'h snnnltaiicoiis (lc\ clopiiiriil, althnuuii thev all 

 (perhaps more than Iimi.ikii). m on,, noniial dcposii, lud..- 

 some) can not possibh- have been irrtili/.t'd at the same 



