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kidney. Between the renals and the lumbars the postcaval 
received two intercostal veins. 
T have examined four individuals of /etonyx capensis—three of 
them females and one male—which showed certain individual 
differences. In one of them (text-fig. 131 B) the postcaval was 
double postrenally, after the fashion of the Armadillos and 
Anteaters *. The division was prolonged upwards to just ante- 
riorly to the entrance of the left renal vein. The right rena 
vein entered the postcaval higher up, where it was a single vein. 
Text-fig. 131. 
A 
JS. 
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Posteaval vein and branches in Mellivora signata (A), Ictonyx capensis (B), and 
Mephitis mephitica (C). 
Lettering as in text-fig. 129. 
The ovarian veins were symmetrical and arose each from its own 
separate postcaval. This was also the case with the lumbar veins, 
which were single veins. In the second female the conditions 
were of the more “normal” Carnivorous type. The renals were 
symmetrical, the postcaval was not divided, and the ovarian veins 
had the very asymmetrical origin found in nearly all Carnivora. 
* Hochstetter, Morph. Jahrb. xx. 1893. 
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