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PARTHENOGENESIS 93 



bee is puzzling, and docs not appear to have any significant connection 



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Fig. 43. 



The meiotic phase in the drone of the honey-bee {Apis viellifica). (After Meves, A.ui A., 1907.) A. 

 primary spermatocyte; B, prophase I.; C, abortive metaphase I.; D, E, degeneration of the uutotic figure 

 beginnins? of cell division; F, prophase II. The cell has completed its division uito a larger nucleated and 

 a smaller non-nucleated portion. G, metaphase II. ; H, anaphase II. ; I. cell divided into two unequal 

 spermatids. The non-nucleated cell derived from the first cell division is still attached. 



with the peculiarities of the first division. In the hornet (Meves and 



