lOO Journal of Comparative Neurology. 



New Tenns Defined. 



Cestits. — Lat. eestns, a girdle, Gr. kestos, stitched, embroid- 

 ered. The band-Hke Hne of attachment of the metepiplexus. 

 It surrounds the dorsal part of the brain tube like a girdle. 



Interpilciim. — \.2i\.. inter, between, 2iX\d p ileum, a cap. In 

 the embryo kitten, a slight elevation between the interpilear 

 and the uvular sulci. Figs. 15 and [6. 



Kilos. — Gr. cheilos, a lip, rim. The thin zone of nervous 

 substance which forms the transition between the substantial 

 parietes and the metatela. 



PileiLvi. — Lat. pileiun, a cap. A lobe of the cerebellum 

 lying between the vermis and the paraflocculus. Its relation to 

 the peduncle is like that of a cap. 



Pugnus. — Lat. pugnus, a fist. An especial development 

 of the mediflocculus inclosed in a cell in the petrous bone, in 

 Rodents, some Carnivora, Chiromys, monkeys, and some other 

 mammals. Named from its resemblance to a fist. [The "ap- 

 pendicular lobe " of the older anatomists.] 



Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y., May i, 1895. 



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