1869.] ANATOMY OF PROTELES. 491 
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OrGANS or GENERATION. 
The penis is large and cylindrical, supported for rather more than 
half its length along the hinder part of the underside of the abdomen 
by a rather lax fold of skin. The terminal part (nearly 2 inches in 
length) is free and pendulous, and covered with a prepuce having a 
thin, delicate, and nearly white hairless integument. The entire length 
of the penis in its relaxed state is rather more than 4 inches ; its dia- 
meter nearly uniform throughout, °6". The glans (fig. 9) is a flat- 
tened cone, without distinct corona. The upper surface is obliquely 
Dorsal surface of glans penis; natural size. 
m. Meatus urinarius. 
bevelled towards the apex, and presents a median slit, bordered by 
a pair of puckered, soft, dark-red lips. When these are separated 
(as in fig. 9), a conical body of cartilaginous hardness is disclosed. 
The rounded apex and dorsal ridge of this are white, smooth, and 
shining ; the sides are pink, and beset with very minute white horny 
tubercles. Immediately under the apex of this body, which projects 
directly forwards, is the orifice of the urethra (m), wide enough to 
admit a large probe. The outer surface of the glans is covered with 
very minute recurved spines, except near the margins of the median 
dorsal fissure. There is an indistinct raphe below, but no freenum. 
The skin covering the under surface of the hinder part of the penis, 
immediately in front of the scrotum, is raised somewhat, for a space 
of 1" in length and -7" in width, by a pair of oblong clusters of yel- 
lowish sebaceous glands, placed close to the middle line, but with a 
narrow non-glandular interval between them. 
The scrotum is nearly naked. It forms a very slight prominence ; 
but the outline of the two testes can just be distinguished through 
the skin. These are in contact posteriorly, but separated in front. 
Each is somewhat pyriform, with the smaller end forwards, 1! long 
and *6'' in greatest diameter, with a rather small subglobular epidi- 
dymis attached to the larger or posterior extremity. 
