. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. A marked indentation or angle at x in the ease of the exoskeleton of themale. The female is more rounded than the male, especially at . the top of the kidney, from the ventral aspect, in a closelyensheatliing and darkly pigmented mesentery [cf. PI. 2, ep.). In this mesentery vasa efferentia pass from thetestis, and by it the testes are attached to the kidneys. Thetestes (fig. 2, t.) are normally brownish-yellow bodies, ovoidin shape, about 16 to 18 cm. long, 1-2 to 13 cm. broad, and1 cm. thick. The kidneys
. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. A marked indentation or angle at x in the ease of the exoskeleton of themale. The female is more rounded than the male, especially at . the top of the kidney, from the ventral aspect, in a closelyensheatliing and darkly pigmented mesentery [cf. PI. 2, ep.). In this mesentery vasa efferentia pass from thetestis, and by it the testes are attached to the kidneys. Thetestes (fig. 2, t.) are normally brownish-yellow bodies, ovoidin shape, about 16 to 18 cm. long, 1-2 to 13 cm. broad, and1 cm. thick. The kidneys (fig. 2, k.) are dark brown,showing a convoluted ventral surface. There is a slightorange supra-renal body on the ventral or inner surface ofeach kidney, partly covered in the natural position by theepididymis and testis. The supra-renal body of each side isapparently the Ren succenturiatus of Bojanus in hisfigures of Emys europcea. Tortoise A.—This specimen in external features possesseda slightly concave plastron (rather less concave than in thenormal male), had a lo
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