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MR. R. I. POOOCK ON EXTERNAL 



raised. Probably as age advanced, the pouch would have been 

 developed and possibly the area would have extended backwards 

 to join the naked skin surrounding the vulva. The skin over- 

 lying the gland was thin, and the secretion was brown in colour 

 and strone- in odour. 



Text-fiQuve 10 



Nandinivi hinotata. 



A. Gland and extefnal genitnlia of adult male, c/l-., glandular area, flattened: 



-p., prepuce surrounded by short liair ; sc, scrotum coucealing aims. 



B. The same with labia of gland folded in frout of prepuce ; letterini.-; as in A, 



C. Transverse section of gland in front of peni«. 



D. Glans penis, its dorsal side uppermost. 



£. Gland and external genitalia of young female, gl., glandular area; n.. vuU'Sj 

 ■a., anus. 



In the adult male the naked glandular area extends from the 

 scrotum a long way in advance of the penis, which is situated 

 near its posterior end, only a little in advance of the scrotum. 

 Close to the penis on each side there are some hairs, sometimes 

 forming a definite crest, sometimes more numerous and less 

 regularly arranged. Sometimes there are also a few hairs j"ight 

 in front of that organ, but for the rest of the area ib is quite 

 smooth. The anterior half of the area expands and forms, 

 when the gland is flattened out by the separation of the thighs, 

 a shallow subcircular depression with tumid margins ; but when 

 the thighs are juxtaposed the right and left halves of the area 

 approach, or nearly meet, across the middle line, being separated 

 by a moderately deep fossa the widtli of which depends upon the 



