At this period of the metamorphosis‥a number of most remarkable bodies make their appearance‥connected one to another and to the inner group of chromosomes by fine strands, which remain uncoloured by reagents; and, as their relation to these fine threads suggests the nodal points in a net, I have termed them dictyosomes.

We propose to apply the terms Maiosis or Maiotic phase to cover the whole series of nuclear changes included in the two divisions that were designated as Heterotype and Homotype by Flemming.