“…z. in figures 1 and 2), called by Greenwood the ' basal band ', by Dequal (1910), in the corresponding cells of Octoclasium, the 'orlo a spazzola', is also distinguished during fife, stains lightly in iron haematoxylin, and is con spicuous in fixed material by its vertical striations which though corresponding in Beneath the basal granules is the third, and inner zone (hb.z. figures 1, 2 and 3), distinguished in previous accounts of ciliated cells by a variety of names, such as 'hyaline zone' (Greenwood 1892), 'angrenzende Zone' (Gurwitsch 1901), 'trans parent zone' (Saguchi 1917), 'sub-cuticular zone' (Grave &Schmitt 1925), and'hypobasal zone' (Kindred 1927). In Lumbricus this zone is distinguishable only in sections, varies greatly in appearance, distinctness and extent (1 to 12ft deep), and stains either faintly, so as scarcely to be distinguished, or uniformly and intensely, so as to be distinguished easily (figure 1, right), or in a variegated fashion (figure 1, left), often so pronounced as to give the free border the appearance of an intricate lace pattern.…”