31G Oil the Spalas of the Grecian Archipelago, 



Size about as in S. m. hellenicus, larger than in anato- 

 licus. 



Compared with analolicus, the skull is of about the same 

 general shape, though distinctly larger. Muzzle and nasals 

 of siraihir outlines, but the posterior boundary of the pre- 

 maxillary processes and of the nasals quite unusually com- 

 plicated, the interdigitation with the frontals carried to an 

 extreme, so that it is impossible exactly to define the limits 

 of each bone — but the middle of the junction is about 

 opposite the hinder edge of the anteorbital foramina. This 

 complication of the sutures is quite unequaled in other 

 members of the genus, and is to a lesser extent repeated 

 along the premaxillo-maxillary suture, the close-set inter- 

 digitations often nearly equal in length to the palatal fora- 

 mina. The course of the two sutures (naso-frontal and 

 premaxillo-frontal) not directly transverse as in dolbrvgea;, 

 but bending backwards in the centre, as in anntolicus, with 

 a large naso-basal process on each side. Prohle-line from 

 lambda to tip of nasals bowed, about as in dolbn'ugece, not so 

 straight as in anafoUcus. 



Incisors averaging far lighter coloured than in other 

 forms, those of the lower jaw always dead white, and in 

 the majority of the specimens those of the upper jaw also 

 white, one only out of the seven distinctly yellow (though 

 still pale yellow) and two more with a faint yellowish tinge. 

 In other forms it is rare to find specimens with the upper 

 pair not distinctly yellow. No doubt this is an unsatis- 

 factory character owing to its variability, and Mehely has 

 not used it at all, but the average difference between the 

 Lemnos and other forms is so decided as to make it worthy 

 of mention. 



jMolars with their roots coalesced, about as in anatolicus, 

 and therein different from those of hellenicus, of which it is 

 said " an m^ uud ni^ alle drei Wurzeln frei ; die Alveolen 

 dieser Zahne dreiwalng.^^ 



Dimensions of male and female skulls^ both old, the first 

 the type : — 



Greatest (condylo-nasal) length 51, 48*2 mm.; condylo- 

 incisive length 47*5, 45 ; zygomatic breadth 38, 34 ; height 

 ]7"8, ]6"4; nasals, length 22, 20*5 ; tip of nasals to lambda 

 40*5, 38'2 ; distance between anteorbital foramina 8*4, 8 : 

 henselion to back of palatal foramina 11-5, 10"6 ; back of 

 palatal foramina to palation 15, 14*3 : upper molar series 

 (crowns) 7-8, 7-1 ; (alveoli) 8-2, 8-1. 



