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ON THE ANATOMY OF 



P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 292. 



15 feet 3 inches of the small intestine, and reappeared above this at 

 intervals in a less regular and less developed way. 



I could see no longitudinal folds of mucous membrane, such as are 

 described by Owen, in the rectum, which, however, had distinctly 

 transverse ones, irregularly disposed in a gyriform way, well marked. 



The right lung is trilobed, with an azygos lobe superadded ; the left 

 lung is bilobed, the lowest lobe in each lung being biggest. 



The kidneys are quite smooth externally : there are no distinct 

 Malpighian pyramids, the tubules opening internally on a single slightly- 



Fig. 2. 



Brain of Myrmecophaga juhata (specimen a) from above. 



P. Z. S. 1882, elevated ridge, which in one specimen is divided into three or four slightly- 

 p. 291. marked papillae. 



2. Brain. The late Prof. Grervais has given, in his memoir on the 

 brain of Edentata, figures of the superior, inferior, and lateral aspects of 

 the brain of Myrmecophaga jubata, as well as of the cranial casts of that 

 and the other species of Anteater *. Pouchet, in his ' Memoires,' also gives 



* Nouv. Arch. v. pi. i. figs. 3, 3, 3 b, pi. ii. figs. 1-3. 



