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those of the transversalis abdominis, and pass forward to be 

 inserted at the end of the bony part of the fourth rib in advance. 

 The muscle answering- to the rectus abdominis, ib. A, has the 

 short rib-cartilages for its intersections, instead of the fibrous 

 ' linere transversa?,' as in Man. 



The intercostales, fig. 143, F, have their usual position and 

 decussating arrangement in two planes. The squamo-costales, 

 figs. 143, 144, I, i, arise from the ribs near the insertions of the 

 U ratores costarum, b : these origins have been detached and the 

 muscles reflected ; in the figures they pass obliquely backward, 



and are inserted into 

 the skin near the outer 

 margins of the ventral 

 scutes, 



The scuto-costales, fig. 

 143, H H, rise from the 

 fore part of the end of 

 the rib, and are inserted 

 into the edo-e of the 

 scute. 



The inter scutales, figs. 

 143, 144, f, g, k, are 

 in two lavers, which 

 decussate each other, 

 and cooperate with the 

 scuto-costales in alter- 

 nately erecting and de- 

 pressing the scutes. ' 

 The fixed point of one 

 series is the ' linea alba,' 

 ib. E ; of the other, the 

 line of insertion of the 

 srpiamo-costales, ib. I. 

 The co-ordinate effects 

 of the foregoing mus- 

 cles of the ribs and 

 scutes produce deter- 

 minate movements, to 

 and fro, of the ribs, Avith alternate erection and depression of the 

 broad transverse ventral scutes. 



The tympano-mandibular arch has unusual mobility in Ser- 



Muscles of the ribs and scutes, Python, cxci. 



1 xx. vol. i. pp. G9-72. 



