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idea of the organ as it appeared to me, and to my mind it 

 suggested the idea of what a highly-ornamented mediaeval 

 pump spout might have been ; figure ^/ is a poor effort of my 

 own to draw a front view. It will be seen that there is a sort 

 of flange or scutcheon where the organ is attached to the body 

 skin, and the projecting portion has in front, near the distal 

 end, a diamond-shaped figure, which appeared to me to be an 



Dissection of Eulais. — n, side view of penis ; b, d, g, front view of penis ; c, eye- 

 plates of Mr. Soar's specimen ; f, eyeplates of my specimen ; e, under side of mite, 

 showing relative positions of capitulum, penis, and epimera, from my specimen, before 

 dissection. 



Opening. This was surrounded by a considerable number of 

 rather long and fine hairs, not drawn in this figure, but may be 

 seen in figure a ; below this in the centre is a blunt projection, 

 and on either side, but not on the same level, is another rather 

 pointed projection, shown in figures a and d. Mr. Soar gives 

 the length of the penis as 0*38 mm. Figure e shows the 

 arrangement of the epimera, the capitulum, and the situation ot 

 the penis ; figure /, the eyes and eye-plate from my specimen ; 

 and figure c the same parts from Mr. Soar's. It will be seen 



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