[710] I allude to those organs above described (p. 132.) for the secretion of matter for varnishing the eggs or lubricating the oviduct. It seems most probable, if the fecundation of the eggs takes place gradually, that upon their passing into the oviduct, a special reservoir should be appropriated to the reception of the male sperm, adapted to maintaining in due activity the vivifying principle, or aura seminalis.
[711] Herold Schmett. t. iv. f. 2. m n.
[712] Treviran. Arachnid. 36. t. iv. f. 32. aa. Marcel de Serres in Mém. du Mus. 1819. 89.
[713] Marcel de Serres, Mém. du Mus. 1819. 115.
[714] Rifferschw. De Genital. Ins. 11.
[715] Marcel de Serres in Mém. du Mus. 1819. 109. Plate [XXX]. Fig. 12. a.
[716] Rifferschw. ubi supr. 23—. Swamm. Bibl. Nat. t. xlii. f. 8. a, f, g, h.
[717] Ibid. i. 104. t. xv. f. 3. ii. 62. t. xii. f. 8. Treviran. Arachnid. t. iv. f. 32.
[718] Reaum. iv. 391.
[719] Posselt Anat. der Ins. t. i. f. 28, 29.