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Show 8 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON THE [May 3, There are, however, several points of resemblance between the two veins. In Chamceleon, as in Iguana, for instance, the lateral abdominal vein is connected with the suprarenal bodies on each side. They both arise from the anterior abdominal vein shortly after the connection of the latter with the ischiadic vein. Text-fig. 1. A, vein communicating anteriorly and posteriorly with B, afferent renal. Ant.Abd., anterior abdominal; Od., oviducal veins; L.K., left kidney; Sr., suprarenal body ; Sr.v., suprarenal veins, (N.B,-The branches from the afferent renal vein to the kidney are not indicated.) The continuation of the afferent renal into the posterior vertebral is shown in the accompanying drawing (text-fig. 1). In one specimen, the injected male, I found the vein only on one side of the body, the left *. In the others it was present on both sides, and usually unequally developed on the two sides; in one the * A similar asymmetry occurs, as will be pointed out shortly, in Pygopus. |