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a little more pronounced. The other differences may be due 

 to individual variation. To judge from Murte's words and 

 figure it will appear that he has mixed up the caudate lobe 

 and the Spigelian lobe. He says: »A tongue-shaped lobus 

 Spigelii [read: caudate lobe] is present and a lobule lying 

 npon the Vena cava may correspond with the so-called lobus 

 caudatus» [read: Spigelian lobe]. This is proved by the 

 figure in which the caudate lobe is turned towards the middle 

 instead of towards the right side and is wrongly marked 

 »Sp»[igelian lobe]. 



Parker has also communicated a figure^ of the liver of 

 this animal, but it appears probable that there have been some 

 errors committed in drawing this figure. It seems as if the 

 right and left central lobes had been mixed up when the 

 drawing was made, because the left is represented as being 

 larger than the right, and notched. The caudate lobe lias 

 a somewhat unnatural situation. There w^as no Spigelian lobe, 

 according to Parker, in his specimen. The figure appears, 

 however, to indicate that it really was such a one, although 

 small and partly hidden by the blodvessels. If Parkers 

 figure quoted is interpreted as above it can easily be put in 

 correspondence as well with Murie's figure as with the pre- 

 sent specimen. I cannot therefore agree with Renvall ^ when 

 he expresses as his opinion that in Parkeras specimen the 

 left central lobe was fused with the left lateral lobe. 



If the figure of the liver of the Indian Tapir as repre- 

 sented in this paper is compared with Garrod's description 

 and figure* of the same organ of the Sumatran Rhinoceros 

 there will be seen that the resemblance is quite close. The 

 Spigelian lobe of the latter is, however, longer and thinner. 

 In the Sondaic Rhinoceros according to Beddard and Treves^ 

 the right lateral lobe is comparatively small but the caudate 

 lobe very large and the Spigelian lobe is not so long and thin 

 as in the Sumatran species. Renvall (1. c. p. 67) believes, 

 however, when considering Garrod's figure quoted, that 

 the caudate lobe is whoJly reduced and absent and that it 

 is the right lateral lobe which has assumed the shape of a 



' Journ. Anat. Phys. Vol. VI Cambridge & London 1872. 



2 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882 p. 770 fig. 2. 



^ Däggdjurslefvern, dess form och flikar. Åbo 1903. p. 66. 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873 p. 102. 



^ Träns. Zool. Soc. Vol. XII Pl. XXXV. 



