The digestive apparatuses of 16 adult P.larvata (7 female,9 male) were observed in detail.Their stomaches look like letter “U”.The upper part of the stomaches was larger than the lower part,and therefore the upper and lower parts were called “largevolume part”and “smallvolume part”,respectively. The stomach walls were flexible. The intestinum tenue was about 5 times as long as the body. The colons were only 102 cm long,did not have ansa colons,and directly connected with the recta. The caeca were undeveloped.Both the live...