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Show 306 MR. GARROD ON THE ANATOMY OF HELICTIS. [Mar. 18, The following were the measurements, taken a few hours after death :- inches. Tip of nose to base of tail 14*25 Tail 6'9 Ear I"* Tip of nose to occipital ridge 3*8 Sex, female. The two pairs of inguinal nipples are widely separate, forming the four corners of a square. The clavicles are reduced, each *3 inch long, the scapular extremities remaining. The tongue is covered with small, similar, retroverted filiform papillae, with a fair scattering of fungiformes. The papillae circum-vallatse, two on the left, three on the right, and one in the angle, form the usual V. The right lung has four lobes, one being the azygos. On the left side there only two lobes. The stomach is exactly like that of Arctictis binturong (as figured by me *) and nearly all Carnivora when contracted. The small intestine is seven feet in length, the large intestine six inches and three quarters. There is no caecum ; but an abrupt change in the nature of the mucous membrane from thin and villous to thick and smooth indicates the junction of the tubes. The liver conforms completely to the carnivorous type, the right central lobe being largest, with a deep cystic fissure, and a gall-bladder so deeply imbedded that its fundus is seen on the diaphragmatic surface of the organs. The left lateral lobe comes next in size, the right central, and then the caudate following, after which the left central lobe, and the small Spigelian last. The pancreas is seven inches in length, its left terminal two inches being in relation with the narrow spleen (two and three quarters inches in length). There is a pair of pea-sized anal glands, opening into the rectum near the sphincter, in a linear transverse orifice on either side. The uterus is strongly bicorn; the vulva much enlarged, with a well developed gland on each side of the orifice of the meatus urinarius. The brain conforms to the Musteline Carnivorous type, not to that of most of the Arctoidea. In Prof. Flower's excellently concise definitions of the three different arrangements of the cerebral convolutions in the Carnivora2, he tells us that "in the Arctoidea the fissure of Sylvius is rather long, and slopes backwards ; the inferior gyrus has the limbs long, corresponding with the length of the Sylvian fissure, the anterior rather narrower than the posterior (especially in the true Bears) ; the middle gyrus is moderate and equal-limbed, the upper one large, very broad in front, and distinctly marked off from the second posteriorly as far as near the lower 1 P. Z. S. 1873, p. 198. 2 P. Z. S. 1869, p. 482. |