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coracoid : cjiy, ceratohyal : e.br. 3, third epi-branchial : e.Jiy, epi-hyal : 

 gl. I, gl. 2, gl. 3, anterior, middle, and posterior glenoid facets : 

 li.br. I, h.br. 3, Ji.br. 5, hypo-branchials of the fir^t, third, and 

 fifth branchial arches : h.hy, hypo-hyal : Jim, hyomandibular : ha-, 

 commencement of haemal canal : /'/, iliac process : lb. i, lb. 2, lb. 3, 

 lb. 4, labial cartilages : nick, Meckel's cartilage or lower jaw : ms.pt, 

 mesopterygium. : mt.pt, metapterygium : ol, olfactory capsule : /./', 

 propterygium : p.pii, pre- pubic process : pt.qn, ptery go-quadrate 

 cartilage, or upper jaw : pu, pubic portion of hip girdle : >-, rostrum : 

 r.c, rostral cartilage : sc, scapula : s.c.f, scapulo-coraccid fontanelle : 

 sp, spiracular cartilage : s.sc, supra-sea pula. 



longitudinal axis of the centrum ; the cartilage intervening 

 between them is further strengthened by four radiating 

 plates of bone, which give rise to a cruciform figure in a 



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FIG. ii. Raja nasuta. The last seven trunk vertebrae, and the 

 first ten caudal vertebrce, viewed from the left side (nat. ?ize). 



c t centra : cd. I, fir.-t caudal verrebra : d.r, dorsal root of spinal 

 nerve : h.p, hcemal process : /i.s, haemal spine : /., inter-neural plate : 

 n.p, neural process : n.s, neural spine : r, rib : /, trunk of spinal 

 nerve : tr, transverse process : tr. 28, twenty-eighth (last) trunk 

 vertebra : v.r, ventral root of spinal nerve. 



transverse section of the centrum. The centra are seen to 

 continue backwards the ventral portion of the anterior 

 vertebral plate. 



6. The transverse processes (Figs, n and 12, tr), 

 backwardly directed rods of cartilage, which proceed one 

 from either side of the centrum, and continue backwards 

 the lateral ridges of the vertebral plate. 



