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Fig. 10.—Freshly hatched larva of Julus multistriatus? 3 mm. long: a, 5 pairs of rudimentary legs, one pair to a segment.

Sinclair (Heathcote) regards each double segment in the diplopods as not two original segments fused together, nor a single segment bearing two pairs of legs, but as “two complete segments perfect in all particulars, but united by a large dorsal plate which was originally two plates which have been fused together.” (Myriopods, 1895, p. 71.) That the segments were primitively separate is shown, he adds, by the double nature of the circulatory system, the nerve cord, and the first traces of segmentation in the mesoblast. Kenyon believes that from the conditions in pauropods, Lithobius, etc., there are indications of alternate plates (not segments) having disappeared, and of the remaining plates overgrowing the segments behind them, so as to give rise to the anomalous double segments.^[3]

Fig. 11.—Sixth pair of legs of Polyzonium germanicum, ♀: cs, ventral sacs; cox, coxa; st, sternal plate; sp, spiracle.—After Haase.