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Tinea. Antennas striated; maxillary palpi folded, 5 to 6-jointed ; tongue 

 scarcely as long as labial palpi ; no naked space around the eyes. 

 jf Palpi tufted beneath. 



Tongue wanting. 

 Araydria. Joints of antennas with whorls of scales, not tufted at base; 

 third joint of palpi rather long, ascending. 



Tongue nearly as long as the labial palpi. 

 Xylesthia. Joints of antennas with whorls of scales, tufted at base ; fore 

 wings with raised tufts, 

 f ff Palpi hairy beneath in the 9> reflexed and very long in the tf. 



Antenna serrated beneath in both (^ and 9 

 Anaphora . Tongue obsolete ; fore wings not pointed. 



Explanation of Plate. 



Genus Tinea, fig. 1. The head of T. c r o c i c a p i t e 1 1 a ; la, a portion 

 of antenna; 16, the anterior and posterior wing of T. lanariella. 



Genus Xylesthia, fig. 5. The head of X. pruniramiella; 5a, a 

 portion of antenna; 5b, the anterior and posterior wings. 



Genus A m y d r ia, fig. 2. The head of A. e f f r e n tel 1 a; 2a, a portion 

 of antenna ; 26, the anterior and posterior wings. 



Genus Anaphora, fig. 3. The head of A. p 1 u m i f r o n t e 1 1 a the tf ; 

 3a, a portion of antenna; 36, the anterior and posterior wings. Fig. 3'. The 

 head of A. Popeanella the 9 j 3 ' a > a portion of antenna of the tf. 



Description of a deformed, fragmentary Human Skull, found in an ancient 

 quarry-cave at Jerusalem ; with, an attempt to determine by its configuration 

 alone the Ethnical Type to which it belongs. 



BY J. AITKEN MEIGS, M. D. 



In September, 1857, Mr. J. Judson Barclay kindly presented to the Academy 

 a fragmentary human cranium discovered by him in an immense quarry-cave 

 at Jerusalem. 



The location in which this skull was found, the circumstances attending its 

 discovery, and the very peculiar form which it exhibits, in consequence of the 

 perpendicular flatness of the occiput, render it highly interesting to the cranio- 

 grapher. 



From a communication* which appeared in the Ladies^ Cliristian Annual for 

 May, 1855, and a letter dated Philadelphia, Aug. 21st, 1857, addressed to the 

 writer by Mr. Barclay,! I gather the following interesting particulars concern- 

 ing the finding of this skull. 



Having received some information of the existence of a very extensive cave 

 near the Damascus gate of Jerusalem, (entirely unknown to Franks,) Mr. 

 Barclay, in conjunction with his father and brother, resolved upon its exploration. 

 Accordingly, having obtained permission to this effect, from the Nazir Effendi, 

 they repaired to the cave, the mouth of which is situated directly below the city 

 wall, and the houses on Bezetha. They found the wall at this spot about ten 

 feet in thickness. Through a narrow, serpentine passage which traverses it they 

 gained an entrance into the cave. The length of the cavern they estimated 



Entitled, " Extract from a Journal kept by R. G. B.. during a three years' residence in 

 Jerusalem." See also "The City of the Great King; or, Jerusalem as it was, as it is, and 

 as it is to be." By J. T. Barclay, M. D. Philada. 1858, p. 458. 



f See Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci. for Sept. 1857, p. 177. 



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