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Show 1894.] ANATOMY OF ATHERURA AFRICANA. 683 is puckered, but there is no appearance of a spiral valve. The three longitudinal muscular bands are well marked on the outside, but disappear in the colon; one of them marks the attachment of a mesentery which is continuous with the mesocolon and which maintains the horseshoe curve of the caecum. Sacculations between the bands are well marked. The large intestine measures 34 inches from the ileo-caecal valve to the anus ; its muscular coat is quite smooth, as is also its mucous coat. Several round or oval agminated glands are seen in the mucous membrane. Fig. 3. \ \ » , R1 *"--2*"lS&*' Posterior surface of the Liver. L.L. Left lateral lobe. L.C. Left central lobes. B.C. Right central lobe. E.L. Right lateral lobe. 0. Caudate lobe. Sp. Spigelian lobe. P.V. Portal vein. B.D. Bile-duct. The liver (fig. 3) agrees in its lobulation very closely with that of Hystrix cristata and javanica. As in these animals, the right central lobe is larger than the right lateral, while the left central has a small portion near the middle line of the liver cut off, so that |
