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Show 1879.] ON THE ANATOMY OF HY^ENA CROCUTA. 79 TRIMERESURUS FLAVOMACULATUS, Gray. (' = Megcera ornala, Gray, =Megara variegata, Gray.) Placer. The ground-colour varies ; one specimen is purplish brown, with darker cross bars, and with a series of salmon-coloured spots along each side of the belly. Frogs. RANA TIGRINA, Daud. Surigao. [Laguna del Bay.] RANA MACRODON, Kuhl. Dinagat Island. [Negros, Laguna del Bay.] MEGALOPHRYS MONTANA, Kuhl. Dinagat Island. IXALUS NATATOR, Gthr. Dinagat Island. POLYPEDATES APPENDICULATUS, Gthr. Dinagat Island. RHACOPHORUS PARDALIS, Gthr. Dinagat Island. PLATYMANTIS MEYERI, Gthr. Dinagat Island. [Laguna del Bay.] 7. On the Anatomy of Hycena crocuta (H. maculata). By MORRISON WATSON, M.D., and ALFRED H. YOUNG, M.B., of The Owens College, Manchester. Communicated by A. H. GARROD. [Keceived November 15, 1878.] (Plates V., VI.) The remarkable and unique characters of the generative organs of Hgcena crocuta, accounts of which have formed the subject matter of two previous communications to this Society1, suggested the advisability of investigating the general anatomical features of this species with a view to future comparison. In the meantime, as nothing like a comprehensive or detailed description of the anatomy of the Spotted Hyaena has hitherto been given, and as that'of other members of the same genus is incomplete and exists only in a scattered form, we have thought that the record of our observations on this subject might be of use. That it might prove so we have endeavoured to ensure by making our descriptions as complete as 1 Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. May 1877, and April 1878. |