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abdomen. In Felis hengcdensis (text-fig. 12) the ventral cord 

 sends branches over the ventral gastric wall and lesser curvature. 

 They anastomose with branches of the right vagus and oiF-shoots 

 of the solar plexus accompanying the gastric and duodenal 

 arteries. The right vagus supplies dorsal gastric nerves and 

 divides into two bundles of fibres which end in the cceliac ganglia 

 (C.Gr.), gastric (G.P.), splenic (S.P.); superior mesenteric (S.M.P.), 

 and left renal (L.E..P.) plexuses. 



In Civettictis civetta, Atilax pahtdinosics, Genetta felina, Ictonyx 

 zorilla, Mephitis mephitica, Melursus ursinus, and Ailurus fulgens 

 the ventral cord divides into branches which supply the ventral 



Text-fi^gure 8. 



The thoracic parts of the vagus nerves in : A. Lufra maculicollis ; B. Ptitorius 

 vison; G.W : ganglion of Wrisberg; (ES : oesophagus. Other letters as 

 in text-fig. 4. 



surface of the stomach and course along the lesser curvature to 

 the pylorus. The dorsal cord sends a few branches to the lesser 

 curvature and dorsal wall of the stomach and ends in the solar 

 plexus ; it always remains large and thick. 



In Paradoxurus larvatus (text-fig. 13) the conditions are very 

 complex. The ventral cord (V.C.) supplies the stomach, as in 

 the preceding forms, by thin gastric bi-anches {g-i>.), but it also 

 gives off the hepatic plexus (H.P.). The dorsal cord (D.O.) gives 

 off a large gastric nerve (G.P.), several twigs to the hepatic 

 plexus (H.P.), the splenic plexus (S.P.),and many communicating 



