THE BLOOD TISSUE

Under this name Wielowiejski has included several important tissues or cellular bodies intimately concerned with the nutrition of the insect. These are:—

1. The blood corpuscles. (See p. 407, leucocytes and phagocytes.)

2. The fat-body proper (Corpus adiposum).

3. The pericardial fat-body (pericardial cells).

4. The œnocytes.

5. The garland-shaped cord of muscid larvæ.

6. The subœsophageal body, a peculiar organ found by Wheeler in the embryos and young larvæ of Blatta and Xiphidium.

7. The phosphorescent organs.

a. The fat-body