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whole skin, rattling the harness which may be attached thereto., 

 and to vibrate particular portions on which an insect or other 

 irritant may have alighted. This ' panniculus carnosus ' is thick 

 upon the neck, whence it passes downward, becoming ( aponeu- 

 rotic ' upon the fore-limb : the sheets upon the sides and fore 

 part of the trunk send a flat tendon to be inserted, with that 

 of the latissimus dorsi, into the humerus : and other fasciculi 

 pass downward over the muscles of the antibrachium, and 



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terminate in a fascia! expansion over the carpo-metacarpal seg- 

 ment. The posterior part of the panniculus spreads over the 

 loins, and, descending, degenerates into an aponeurosis, which 

 forms, in the male, a sheath for the penis: the hinder portion 

 encases the rump and thigh in a strong carneo-aponeurotic 

 covering, which accompanies the fascia lata to the hind leg. 

 On removing the panniculus carnosus, the superficial proper 



