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even in this second example to which I am now referring, the 

 liver only just extends beyond the heart and grasps it firmly, as 

 it were, with a lobe on either side. And the pericardium comes 

 into contact and is connected with the absolute ventral edge of 

 the liver-lobe on either side. I could detect no furrowing of 

 either lobe of the liver. The gall-bladder in this, the smaller 

 specimen, instead of being completely hidden, was quite visible 

 for the greater part of its extent between the ends of the two 

 lobes of the liver and extending beyond them even towards the 

 cloaca. 



The Stomach of this Frog (text-fig. 9) seems to be peculiai'ly 

 large, and its pyloric projection is sharply marked off fi-om the 

 ensuing duodenum, not only by a constriction but by the fact that 

 the walls of the latter are much thinner than those of the pylorus. 

 The pyloric region of the stomach in fact is quite distinct from 

 the rest of that organ and forms a projection from it ; there is 

 no gradual passing of the one into the other as in Rana. The 

 stomach itself was swollen and nearer to the spherical than to the 

 ovoid in form. It was full of a mass of ants, among which I dis- 

 tinctly recognised " soldier ants " (with enormous heads) of a 

 species which I have not attempted to identify. The muscu- 

 larity of the stomach was very evident, and it thus contrasted 

 with the gut. The oesophagus, which suddenly expands into this 

 laxge stomach, only just enters the abdominal cavity. On cutting 

 open the stomach the smallness, relatively speaking, of the 

 oesophageal aperture into it can be realised. 



The Lungs float very fi^eely in the ccelom ; it is only at the base 

 that they are attached by ligaments. The texture is thin with 

 large alveoli. 



Text-fiff. 10. 



Z.v. 



Intestinal canal of Breviceps. 

 sf. Stomach. L.i. Colon. 



The Intestine (text-fig. 10) does not appear to differ greatly from- 

 that of Ba7ia in its proportionate length. It differs, however, very 

 considerably in certain features of its structure. The first portion 



