670 THE GENERATIVE ORGANS. 
net-like anastomosis of connective tissue, not connected with 
the tunica propria of the egg-tubes. This tissue is thickened 
on the surface of the ovary, and forms a capsule which is con- 
tinued over the end fibres and the oviduct.’ 
Brandt does not consider this as a peritoneal tissue, and 
says that ‘it differs widely from the peritoneal tissue of Peri- 
Fic. 93.—A portion of the ovarian stroma of one of the egg-tubes from the ovary of a 
Blow-fly, drawn from a specimen dissociated in Flemming’s mixture, and seen with 
an oil immersion, yy objective. 0, to 04, ova in successive stages of develop- 
ment; 05, ovarian stroma; /, terminal thread of the oviduct. 
planeta in not being formed from the tissue of the fat bodies, 
but from a connective tissue.’ To attempt such a distinction 
leads too far, since in the majority of cases tissues termed 
peritoneal are merely cellular connective elements mixed with 
fibres and tracheal vessels, and the fat bodies themselves are 
mere modifications of the same tissue. 
