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Show 1904.] ANATOMY OF TIIE LACERTILIA. 15 a branch collecting blood from the parietes and the left oviduct. Just beyond the right suprarenal a vein from that gland opens into the vena cava, and immediately beyond that again the anterior right ovarian vein, which-nearer to the ovary than in the case of the left ovarian veins-receives a branch from the oviduct and the membrane connecting this with the lung. The vena cava then pursues its course, without receiving further branches, to the liver. Text-fig. 4. Renal venous system of Pycjopus lepidopu». ant.aid., anterior abdominal; K, right; K', left kidney; Lv., lateral abdominal vein; od., oviducal; v.r.a., vena renalis advehens; v.c.i., vena cava; ep., epigastric. Suprarenal Portals.-These veins are asymmetrical. The right suprarenal body has two afferent veins and the left only one. The right-hand vessels pass dorsally of the vena cava ; that of the left suprarenal ventrally of the left vena renalis revehens. |