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zygomatic arches would have been easily visible when the 

 skull was viewed from above in the usual fashion. On account 

 of the amount of destruction of the outer table at the back of 

 the skull, it is not possible to say whether any parietal foramen 

 had been present. The supra-inial occipital squama bulges 

 slightly. 



Norma lateralis. — (PI. xi., fig. 2). The forehead is rounded. 

 The glabella and superciliary ridges are conflaent. The ridges 

 are marked off from the supra-orbital borders by well-marked 

 grooves. At the inner part of the right groove is the supra- 

 orbital foramen; on the leftside there is a supra-orbital notch. 

 The trigonum on the left side is flattened ; on the right side it 

 is rounded. The supra-orbital depressions are shallow. The 

 nasion is somewhat sharply, but not deeply, depressed. It is 

 diflBcult to state the exact lengths of the frontal and parietal 

 arcs on account of the undefined position of the bregma. 



There is a short, much-serrated metopic suture. 



1826. CAST OF TASMANIAN SKULL (PRIVATE 



COLLECTION). 



This is a piece of particularly fine workmanship by Mr. 

 Alfred J. Taylor, and shows very well the leading features 

 and many of the finer details of the skull. 



Noi'ma verticalis. — The skull is long, and on account of the 

 projection of the parietal eminences it shows a distinctly 

 pentagonal outline. The triangular area in front of the bregma 

 is fairly well marked, and the flattened areas on the frontal 

 and parietal bones are very distinct. Posteriorly, they extend 

 some distance behind the parietal eminences. Anteriorly, 

 they run forwards between the frontal eminences, and meet 

 mesially between the glabella and the anterior end of the 

 rounded ridge that runs forwards in the middle line from the 

 bregma. The frontal eminences are fairly marked between 

 the flattened areas and the temporal curved lines. These 



