1908.] 



OF THE BATRACHIAN GENUS HEMISUS. 



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oblique septum starting in the neighbourhood of the coccyx. 

 The length of this space is some 11 mm., the total length of the 

 body being, from snout to tip of coccyx, 58 mm. It is therefore 

 proportionately smaller than the corresponding space in Breviceps, 

 which contains the lymph-heart ; the greater size in Breviceps is, 

 however, efiected by the extension of the body behind the tip of 



Text-fig. 182. 



Dorsal view of Hemisus guttaHun, with tl.e skin <,f the back partly removed. 



f Fat-body lying in saccus iliacus and coverpd by a mfinibranous wall. 

 '■ c. Cutaneous muscle. 



the coccyx. This cavity is exposed by the removal of the skin 

 which is particularly thick and glandular on the dorsal surface of 

 the body generally in this Frog. To the wall of the greater part 

 of the cavity the skin is not adherent and can be, therefore, 



