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e secondary sexual characters,/and hence not associated especial ly with the male, as 
— pormay be —* from their appearance. 
The lateral chord @ontains a considerable number of bb /SbUISELL OA of gran- 
ules thxengh slements slong its aiddle. Near the middle of the body the number of 
dozen or more. 
fractive. Except for the masses of naa already described, the chord appears 
sanagetite okt "struc etureless". How mach these eranulee heve been altered by fixation re- 
mains to be determined, but there ie without doubt some alteration 
The musculet body wall is about as thick as she cuticle; together neer the middle 
of the body they often occupy, in the specimen under examination, twoefifthe the body 
cape nea It is possible thet there is a little deception in this and that the layere 
appear thicker than expected on account of the presence of chords gouewhat thicker 
than the muscular wall of the body,= but there is doubt about thie. of this two-fifths, 
two-fifths Le oceupled by + the cutiele and three-fifths by —_ muscular layer. : 
EXCRETORY PORE, | The excretory pore is located behind the nerve-ring at a dis- 
Lance nearly equal to the corresponding diameter of the- neck: The duct leading for= 
ward and outward to it is ° Pairly netly cutinised and is unmietekable when brought 
inte good optical section. 7% extends inward and backward at enaangle of about thirty 
+o forty degrees until it comes to the region of the oesophagus, where, apparently, Lt 
forke, the two branches fiblowing along the oesophagus for a short distance and then be- 
coming Lost to view. 
Behind the norve-ring there are groups of large ganglion celle of sousuhet yari- 
able size, the largest of whith are one-sixth as wide as the correspomding portion of the 
NOCKs 
Certain vague structures opposite the rectum lead to the conclusion that there may 
be anal glands of considerable magnitudé;- or possibly anal gengliae. These structures 
consist of five or six celle, constituting groups about one-fourth as wide as the body 

