152 EDWARD PHELPS ALLIS, JR. 



lateralis fibers found in the more posterior nerves. The ramus 

 maxillaris, which contains only general sensory fibers, would 

 therefore seem to be a ramus anterior, but as it runs antero- 

 ventrally across the anterior surface of the palatoquadrate, and 

 sends branches to the ventral, and hence morphologically in- 

 ternal, edge of that cartilage, it may contain a part of the ramus 

 posttrematicus internus, the remainder of that nerve being 

 represented by a branch of the ramus mandibularis sent to the 

 dorsal, and hence morphologically internal, edge of Meckel's 

 cartilage. The further course of this nerve was not traced, 

 but if it has branches that correspond to those branches of 

 Amia (Allis, '97) that are sent to the external and internal sur- 

 faces of the maxilla, they would seem to be the rami pretre- 

 maticus externus and internus, the remainder of the nerve 

 .being a ramus pharyngeus. 



Palais de Carnol^s, Menton 

 May 3, 1920. 



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