358 Coe and Kunkel— California Limbless Lizard. 
The left lobe is represented by a very small projection situated a 
short distance behind the gall bladder and at about four fifths the 
distance toward the posterior end of the right lobe (text-fig. 1), 
The gall bladder is conspicuous as a dark, oval body imbedded in 
the substance of the liver at about three fourths the distance toward 
the posterior end of that 
organ. In some cases it is 
largely covered by the liver 
tissue, but usually les freely 
exposed ventrally. Several 
bile ducts (text-fig. 4) ac- 
company the portal vein to 
Figure 4. Section of portal vein with its the anterior end of the du- 
Scbompanging. tale Suess, of wath nice er odenum..: One: Oeil ame 
larger than the four or five 
other ducts and probably leads directly from the gall bladder. They 
pass through the walls of the duodenum in company with the pan- 
creatic ducts. 
Pancreas. 
Situated in the angle between the pylorus and anterior 
Figure 5. Ventral side of stomach Figure6. Ventral side of stomach 
and duodenum, showing position of and anterior portion of duodenum, 
lobes of pancreas and spleen; p, p’, left the latter opened to show the tongue- 
and middle lobes of pancreas respective- shaped villi. The three lobes of the 
ly; p’, right lobe of pancreas, contin- pancreas and the spleen are as in 
uing posteriorly into spleen (sp); p. v, fie VONN XS. 
portal vein. x3. 
end of the duodenum, that is, on the ventral and right sides of the 
pylorus, are three small bodies of whitish color (text-fig. 1); two of 
these are flattened, irregularly triangular in outline and appressed 
rather closely to the stomach, while the third is ovoid, with a deeply 
pigmented posterior portion (text-figs, 5, 6). The two flattened 
bodies prove to be lobes of the pancreas; the paler portion of the 
ovoid body is likewise pancreas, while its pigmented posterior por- 
tion constitutes the spleen. In most cases at least two of these 
