Jávorka Sándor - Soós Lajos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 29. (Budapest 1935)

Fejérváry, G. J.: Further contributions to a monograph of the Megalanidae and fossil Varanidae - with notes on recent Varanians

sals of most Lacertilians, appear to he the inlets for nutritive branches given off by the dorsal branches of the intercostal arteriae, which, in turn, are the ramifications of the common stem of the arteriae subclaviae, and of the genii nous blood vessel RATHKE designated as representing the arteriae vertébrales in Lacertilians. respectively.

,n These foramina may be named, Fig. 1. Dorsal vertebra of f Megalania pm-ca OWEIN. Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. — Mus. Hung. Rept. No 2778. — % of the nat. size from the ventral side. — fnv = foramina nutritiva ventralia; fyn = tuberculum II. (mediale) faciei eostalis process] transversi: pop — prpcessi ohliqui posteriores. thus, foramina pro introitu ramulorum nutritivorum ventralium ramorum dorsalium artériám m intercostal in m. or briefly foramina nutritiva ventralia. The centre is slightly but distinctly swollen in its anterior half, the swellings occurring bilaterally, and gradually going over into the more flattened ventrolateral part of the centre, which meets the \antero-lateral portion of the neural arch's basal recess, with which it confounds itself without being marked off by any macroscopically available trace of delimination. Yentrally these swel01 Cfr. C. K. HOFFMANN, in: It. G. BRONN'S Klassen n. Ordnungen, vol. cit., p. 994—995. — 1 wish to express, in this place, my very best thanks to Prof. Dr. A. /IMMERMANN in Budapest, to whom I am indebted for valuable informations on angiologieal lines.