BIHANG TILL K. SV. AET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 28. AFD. IV. NIO 3. 5 



also, althoui;-h sparsely, hairj^ within. The subfrenal poiich 

 is iiaked. The liinction of these pouches is quite difficiilt to 

 understand or explain with only preserved, and not very well 

 preserved, material on hand. There were no contents to be 

 seen and no large glands could be detected. It is, however, 

 possible that the surrounding walls contain small glands the 

 secretion of wliich is stored np in the pouch. 



The roundish elevations spöken of above are comjjara- 

 tively more richly beset with hairs than other parts of the 

 perineal region which appears rather naked and only beset 

 with a very few scattered hairs which, however, become a little 

 more numerous towards the urogenital opening. Whether 

 this nakedness is an anomalous feature or not, I dåre not ascer- 

 tain, but Bennett (1. c. p. 137) states that this region in his 

 specimen was »equally hairy with the adjoining parts». The 

 skin of the perineal region is richly provided with pores 

 w^hich partly may be the openings of hair-follicles, but also of 

 cutaneous glands or both. Their large size compared with 

 that of the very fine hairs make the latter explanation the 

 more plausible. 



The female genital organs open a little more than 4 cm. 

 below the opening of the circumanal pouch. 



The clitoris protrudes about 12 mm. from the prepuce. 

 On each lateral side it is attached by means of a strong 

 frenum (fig. 3 f) to the preputial wall. Its posterior surface, 

 the tip and the anterior surface to a distance of 9 mm. from 

 the tip is naked, but in its present preserved state wrinkled. 

 On the anterior side of the lateral frena the prepuce forms 

 a rather deep pocket round the base of the clitoris. This 

 pocket extends forward in front of the clitoris in a fissure- 

 like groove which might at the first look be mistaken for a 

 vulva (fig. 4). The depth of this anterior prepucial groove 

 is at the base of the clitoris about 1 cm. The portion of the 

 clitoris included in this pocket is rather densely covered by 

 small, but stout conical spines.^ In the median line there is 

 a deep longitudinal groove extending all along the spiny por- 

 tion of the clitoris (conf. fig. 4). Basally there seems to be 



' This covering may thus be said to extend över the basal three fifths 

 of the anterior surface of the olitoris. Filhol says (1. c. p. 1062) that the 

 >deux tiers inférieurs» of the organ is clothed with »nombreuses papilles acu- 

 minées> which is not quite correct, because the spines are only found on the 

 anterior side of the organ. 



