II. An account of the two methods of reproduction in Daphnia , and of the structure of the 'ephippium.'

Abstract

In this paper the author describes the male organs and the structure of the Ephippium in the genus Daphnia , and the double method of reproduction by agamic and ephippial eggs. The author calls the non-ephippial eggs agamic, but it is possible, though not probable, that the ephippial eggs may be agamic also. In the male Daphnia there are two small papillæ above the posterior claws, but on the ventral side of the anus, and on these being compressed, two streams of minute rod-like bodies, with movements so gentle as to be scarcely visible, will be seen to issue, one from each papilla.