1910. 



CITANEOUS SCKXT-ULAN'DS OF If i;.MJ.\ANT.S. 



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welj tyiuy (he heels together. The w.ills of the interdigitiil 

 depression were thickly covered with long hairs projecting down- 

 wards over the })roxiuial margin of the nail, tliose on the anterior 

 side of the posterior web being esjiecially long, so as to conduct 

 the secretion downwards l)etween the heels of tlie hoofs. The 

 dilated cax'ity of the glands Avas beset with short scattered hairs 

 which gradually lengthened towards the orifice of the gland. T'he 

 seci-etion itself was white and sticky, with a x'e]»ulsive odour of 

 <log's faeces mixed witli acetic acid. 



Text-fii--. 92. 



Grueuci ma.i'wclli. 



A. Moilian vertical soction of hind foot: o., orifice oF pedal gland. 

 13. Front foot dissected to sliow the gland entire. 



(Fresh specimens.) 



In another female specimen from Sekondi also referred to 

 (r. maxivelli, the preorbital streak, although lightly concave down- 

 wards, was not so abruptly angled at its posterior end as in the 

 one described above. The streak was 18 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 

 and had a row of about 20 vertically elongated pores, from each 

 of which a few small bristles arose. Drops of fluid could be 

 squeezed in the same way from these orifices. There were no 

 inguinal glands, and the pedal glands resembled those of the lirst- 

 described specimen. 



The absence of the inguinal glands in these two specimens of 

 G. maxweUi suggests that Owen was probably Avrong in assigning 

 these organs to the species, for it does not seem probable that 



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