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equal in length to the diameter of the orbit, and occupying nearly all 

 the lachrymal. Nasals broad at their junction, with the frontals nar- 

 rowing rapidly for one-third their length, then continuing with equal 

 width beyond the junction with the premaxillae, when they narrow to 

 a point. Antorbital vacuity moderate, longer than wide, being a 

 moderate slit at the junction of tbe frontal, nasal, lachrymal and max- 

 illa. Pedicles of moderate height and rather stout, rising behind 

 the orbit just in front of the parietal suture, and inclined backwards, 

 and directed above the plane of the face and the convexity of the 

 frontals! Auditory bulla' very small; condyles large. Paroccipital 

 process broad at top, compressed laterally, curving inwards and 

 graduating to a point, l'remaxilla rather broad, considerably exceed- 

 ing in length the upper molar series. Teeth large, the molars pos- 

 sessing prominent supplementary columns. Canines small, slightly 

 curved and pointed, on upper jaw only. Length of parietal suture 

 about equal to its greatest width. Coronoid process of mandible 

 long, of about an even width and curving backwards, its upper 

 extremitv extending beyond the posterior edge of condyle. This last 

 transverse projection is broadest and flattest on its anterior border, 

 tapering to a sharp edge on the exterior. The inferior dental fora- 

 mina are pyriform in shape, the pointed end upwards, while the 

 mental foramina are oblong slits lengthwise with the mandible. 

 When the jaws are closed the first lower premolar lies beyond and in 

 front of the first upper premolar. 



Skull of Female. The cranial cavity, like that of the male, is de- 

 cidedly convex above, the slope however being most abrupt anteriorly 

 to between the orbits: differing in this respect from the skull of the 

 male, which has the slope most pronounced to the supraoccipital. 

 Facial portion rather flat and narrow, and the contraction of the 

 maxillae at first premolar is not so conspicuously apparent as in the 

 male. The antorbital fossa is large and deep and of comparatively 

 equal dimension: and the antorbital vacuity is very long and wide. 

 The nasals are broad posteriorly, narrowing rather sharply about 

 midway their length and continue with equal width beyond the pos- 

 terior border of the premaxilla?. Auditory bullae quite small. Teeth 

 much worn, are large, with supplementary columns not so prominent 

 as in the male; the canines short and blunt at point. The outline of 

 mandible, with the size and shape of the inferior dental, and 

 mental foramina are the same as those seen in the male. The gen- 

 eral appearance of the skull is long and narrow when compared with 

 that of the male, but its main characteristics do not differ, and while 

 not so pronounced! the contraction of the maxilla 1 in front of first 

 premolar is equally great when compared with the general width of 

 the superior surface. 



