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Fig. 8. — Semidiagrammatic drawing made by Walter H-. Rich, from dissection by William C. Kendall. Specimen from 

 Sebago Lake. Me. Ventral view of ovaries and oviducts of smelt {Osmerus mordax). a. Left or anterior ovary; b. right or posterior 

 ovary; g. lateral expansions of mesovaria and ovarian membranes joining peritoneum of abdominal walls to form oviducts; 

 A. genital pore; /, liver; q. intestine; r. anus. 



Fig. 9. — Left view of ovaries and membranes of same as fig. 8. a. Left ovan'; &. le^t side of right ovary bending up on left 

 side so that its lower portion is dorsally situated; c. left mesovarium; d. outer edge of ovarian membrane; g. posterior^ lateral 

 expansion of mesovarium and ovarian membrane forming left oviduct; k. genital pore; q. intestine; r, anus; ic, posterior end 

 of intestinal mesentery with confluent mesovaria. 



F)g. 10.— Right view of same as fig. 9. a. Left ovary bending up under stomach and intestine forming a groove in which 

 the viscera extend; b, right ovari'; c, mesovarium of right ovar^'; d, outer edge of ovarian membrane, between which and the 

 mesovarium the egg surface not covered by membrane other than the raesovariunj is situated ; p. right posterior expansion of 

 the mesovarium and ovarian membranes forming the short right oviducts or practically the right side of the common oviduct 

 posterior to w; h, genital pore; /. liver; n. upper or cardiac arm of stomach; o, lower or pyloric arm of stomach; q. intestine; 

 r. anus; ^ intestinal mesentery; v, air bladder; w. posterior end of intestinal mesentery with confluent mesovaria. 



