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becomes confused with the otlier spaces (Text-fig. 3, and 
PI. 22, fig. 4, g. cl). 
The body of the animal is frequently filled with eggs, which 
tend to be arranged in groups surrounded by strands of fibrous 
tissue which radiate from a central mass (PI. 22, fig. 4,fh ). 
Running’ from the stalk along’ each side of the animal there 
is a canal (ca.) surrounded by thick walls, and drawn out so 
as to extend down the stalk and become continnuus with the 
lacunar system of the roots. 
One specimen, however (PI. 22, fig. 5), differed widely 
from the rest; it was rather small, and its egg-sacs were 
just beginning to form. It was less opaque tiian the others, 
so that the internal structure was more easily seen. The 
body was well filled with eggs, and running among them was a 
series of canals, presumably the oviducts [o.d.), which con- 
verged towards the middle of the animal, and apparently 
opened on either side into a thick-walled duct {gl) which 
would homologise with the glandular portion of the oviduct 
described by Marcus Hartog^ in Cyclops as secreting the 
cement by which the eggs are agglutinated together when 
expelled. Each of these ducts was bent into a D-shape 
and opened into, or near, a spherical vesicle {Iv.), wiiich, in 
its turn, led to the exterior by a canal running out to the 
chitinous support of the egg-sac of that side, and opening- 
near its a[)ex. From this thei’e extended an extremely small 
egg-sac, containing but few eggs. Between the glandular 
ends of the two oviducts there lay a large globular body 
{rn. V.) containing a darkly staining mass, and having no 
obvious connection with the rest of the system ; this, I 
thought, might be the spei’inatheca, as it lay not far from the 
place to which males were attached in other specimens. 
None of these structures extended down the stalk, the lumen 
of which was completely filled with non-vacuolated tissue. 
An examination of sections made from this specimen also 
shows that its anatomy is ves-y different from tliat of other 
' Hai’tog, M., ‘‘ The Morphology of Cyclops and the Relations of the 
Copepoda,” ‘ Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool.,’ v, 1888, pp. 1-46. 
