1898.] 



MYOLOGY OF THE TEIlRBSTRtAL CARNIVOBA, 



161. 



Carnivora ; it is broad aad thin, and rises from the symphysis and 

 posterior ramus o£ the piibes to be inserted into the cnemial crest 

 of the tibia just below the insertion of the ilio-tibiaUs (sartorius), 

 in most cases into the second quarter of the tibia (see fig. 2). In 

 Proteles (32), Watson describes it as rising from the fascia over 

 the adductores femoris, and being inserted into the tibia at the 

 j unction of the middle and lower thirds. 



Fig. 2. 



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Inside view of thigh-muscles of Herpestes. 



(The semimembranosus and pre-semimembranosus have been artificially 



separated.) 



Pectineus. — This muscle, in many cases, is extremely difficult to 

 separate satisfactorily from the superficial part of the adductor 

 mass, and there can be little doubt that what one observer would 

 describe as a large or double pectineus, another would call pectin- 

 eus and adductor longus. We therefore feel quite incapable of 

 dogmatizing on the subject and merely give the following notes for 

 what they are worth. In Felis leo (2) Ouvier and Laurillard figure 

 the muscle as double. In Felis catus (9) Mivart describes it as 

 small, yet reaching halfway down the thigh. In Gry ptoprocta (14) 

 we found the muscle reaching halfway down the thigh and feebly 

 separated into an outer and inner part ; in another specimen of 

 the same animal (13j, which we examined, no separation could be 



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