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COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 



The mid-brain (Fig. 133) is extremely large relatively, while 

 the thalamencephalon is depressed between it and the prosen- 

 cephalon. 



The extremely well-developed cerebellum is bent upon itself, 



hywW 





Pig. 134. — Lokgitudinal Vertical Section through the Anterior Part of 

 THE Teleostean Brain. (Founded on a figure of the Trout's brain by Rabl- 

 Riickhard. ) 



Tco, roof of the optic lobes ; 2Y, torus longitudinalis ; Cp, posterior commissure ; 

 Gp, pineal body, with a cavity (Gp^) in its interior ; Ep, Ep, the epithelium 

 (ependyme), lining the walls of the ventricles ; t, point at which the epithelial 

 roof of the secondary fore-brain (pallium, Pa) becomes continuous with the 

 lining of the anterior wall of the pineal tube; at/ is seen an outgrowth which 

 represents a rudimentary parietal organ ; V.rm, common ventricle (prosocoele) 

 of the secondary fore-brain; V.t, third ventricle ; B.ol, X.ol, olfactory lobe 

 and nerve ; C.6'<, corpus striatum, which lies on either side of the middle 

 line; CA.w.opi, optic ohiasma ; Ci, inferior commissure; CTi, horizontal com- 

 missure ; J, infundibulura ; //, H^, hypophysis ; Si; saccus vasculosus ; 

 Li, lobi inferiores ; Aq, aqueduct of Sylvius (mesoco^le) ; tr, pathetic nerve ; 

 Val, valvula cerebelli. 



overlies the medulla oblongata behind, and is prolonged in front 

 into the ventricle of the mid-brain as a valvula cerebelli (Fig. 134), 

 as is the case in Ganoids. 



The Teleostean brain is of a specialised type. It has no direct 



