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eggs are leaving the ovary to be scattered through the medullary 

 parenchyma, tliough in this particular stage the whole paren- 

 chyma is not filled Avith eggs as it is later and at the end when 

 the whole medullary region is crammed with the paruterine 

 organs. As will be seen by a reference to the figures cited, the 

 eggs lie partly in round or oval cavities which might well be 



Text-fig. 77. 



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^^a-> 



A 



/- 



M. 



Ji' 



o.c. 



B. 



o c. 



C 



Three sections through the medullary tissue in the neighbourhood of the 

 ovary of Inermicapsifer capensis. 



In A a single ovum is shown to the left. In the centre is an oval area with 

 strongly marked walls, but filled with the ordinary medullarj' tissue. 



B shows eggs (o.) lying each in a single vesicle of the medullary tissue and three 

 eggs lying in a cavity (o.c). 



C. Three of the cavities (o.c.) containing eggs and also showing remains of the 

 medullary tissue which is shown unaltered in A. 



thought to be uterine cavities were no further information 

 forthcoming. I believe, however, that these cavities are not 

 remnants of a uterus, as is held by Janicki to be the case with 

 apparently similar cavities in Inermicapsifer hyracis. A close 



