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Show immediately. This vein also was found in a male V. exanthe-maticus. Its existence is probably therefore a characteristic of the Varanidse. Text-fig. 104. 1 9 0 6 . ] v a s c u l a r s y s t em o f v a r a n u s . 6 1 5 Veins of suprarenal body and adjoining regions in Varanus exantliematicus (left-hand figure) and V. nilotims (right-hand figure). A. Aorta; Ant.Abd. One root of anterior abdominal; Ca. Posterior cardinal; K . Kidney; O. Vein from omentum;' S.E. Suprarenal body; p. Parietal veins; T. Testis; v.d. Vas deferens; V.c.i. Postcaval. Suprarenal Portal Veins.-These have been already recognised by Corti, Hochstetter, and myself in V. griseus. They vary somewhat in numbers and in arrangement in the several individuals which I have dissected. These suprarenal veins, as is the case in other Lizards-it is not mentioned by Hochstetter for Varanus,-arise in two ways. |