28 INTESTINE AND DIET OF REPTILES. 



hut the state of preservation does not allow any detailed de- 

 scription. The length of the small intestine is 325 mm. There 

 is a rery long nniformly cylindrical coccum (Fig. 9 cc, Pl. II) 

 measuring i54 mm. in length and abont 10 mm. in width all 

 along. The length of the large intestine without eoecnm is. 

 abont 215 ram. The opening of the small intestine projects 

 a little into the large one (Fig. 9 ic, Pl. II). There is no 

 eoécolic valve and no other valves in the large intestine. The 

 eoecnm is on both sides inclnded into a mesentery by means 

 of which it is connected with the small intestine, to the back 

 of the abdominal cavity and with the large intestine. In the 

 intestine, large as well as small, and a,lso in the coBcnm were 

 fonnd a nnmber of berries or drnpe-like frnits abont 12 — 15 

 mm. in diameter and belonging to two diiferent species of 

 plants or trees. In addition to these the only recognizable 

 remains were some legs of an insect. These fäets indicate 

 that this animal is not wholly carnivorus or insectivorons in 

 its habits. 



Ciiemitlophorus miirinus Laur. 



Distance from snout to vent 120 mm. 



It is rather difiicnlt to say what onght to be counted 

 as ventricle and Avhat onght to be regarded as oesophagus. 

 In the specimen investigated I have measured the long sau- 

 sage-shaped säck which was filled with food to l)e 85 mm. It 

 extended on the left side very far back to the inguinal re- 

 gion where it made a short cnrvature forward abont 15 mm. 

 The small intestine is rather wide bnt thinwalled; its length 

 is abont 235. There is no eoecnm. The ileum opens in the- 

 niiddle of the anterior end of an enormons säck which con- 

 stitutes the colon and rectnni and lies quite straight, occupy- 

 ing the greater part of the abdominal cavity. Its length is 

 abont 85 mm. There is a well developed circnlar valve with 

 a radial width of abonth 4 mm. at the opening of the ileum 

 into the colon. This valve looks like a light cape on the 

 otherwise, thanks to its contents, dark colon. The colon it- 

 self has no valve, but forms only a simple cavit3\ 



The stomach contained the remains of one single beetle, 

 otherwise only vegeta])le matter, mostly nnbroken leaflets 

 sn})])osed to have belonged to some legnminous plant, a couple 



