CHAPTER XI

THE EVIDENCE OF THE AUDITORY APPARATUS AND THE ORGANS OF THE LATERAL LINE

Lateral line organs--Function of this group of organs--Poriferous

sense-organs on the appendages in Limulus--Branchial sense-organs--

Prosomatic sense-organs--Flabellum--Its structure and position--

Sense-organs of mandibles--Auditory organs of insects and arachnids--

Poriferous chordotonal organs--Balancers of Diptera--Resemblance to

organs of flabellum--Racquet-organs of Galeodes--Pectens of

scorpions--Large size of nerve to all these special sense-organs--

Origin of parachordals and auditory capsule--Reason why VIIth nerve

passes in and out of capsule--Evidence of Ammocoetes--Intrusion of

glandular mass round brain into auditory capsule--Intrusion of

generative and hepatic mass round brain into base of flabellum--

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