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Show 1882.] MR. W. A. FORBES ON THE GREAT ANTEATER. 297 Fig. 6. Female generative organs of Myrmecophaga jubata, from before, reduced, and somewhat diagrammatic. The walls of the tube have been laid open anteriorly to show the vaginal septum (v. s), beneath which an arrow is passed, appearing above in the vagina (v), and below emerging by the vaginal aperture of that side (v. a) into the urino-genital canal (u.g). The opening of the vagina into this on the other side is laid open. b.g, openings of Bertolini's glands; ves, bladder, turned to one side; u, uterus; ' f,f< Fallopian tubes (cut short, with the rest of the uterine appendages on the left side) ; o, ovary ; h, hydatid of Morgagni; b. I, broad ligament of the uterus, cut short. |