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MR. F. E. BEDDAUD 0\ THE 



[Mar. 15, 



more on the plan of the epigastric system of Tiliqua than on 

 that of Varanus. It aiises chiefly from the anterior abdominal, 

 some way before the entry of the latter into the liver, and 

 runs forward to the liver, which it enters in common with the 

 last of the three venti^l parieto-hepatic veins. Posteriorly, I am 

 inclined to think, it is continuous with a slender vessel arising 

 from the bladder in common with certain branches of the anterior 

 abdominal vein (see text-fig. 88). Its course, at least anteriorly, 



Text-fi^. 



R.AltMd, 



RTB. 



Anterior aLdominal and median epigastric vein of Iguana tuherciHata. 



JP?., veins of bladder ; JEpig., median epigastric; L.Atit.Abd., \eit root of anterior 

 abdominal; L.F.B., veins of left" fat-body ; Lat.Ahd., lateral abdominal; 

 B.Ant.Ahd., right root of anterior abdominal ; Jt.F.B., veins of right fat- 

 hody. 



is accurately along the ventral median line. The lateral epigastric 

 veins are well developed and are like those of Varanus; they 

 spring from the anterior abdominals nearer to the union of these 

 vessels in the middle line than do the posterior vertebrals. I 



