Slruclure of the Therocep]iaUj,n Skull. 



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the British Museum, collfctt'd by Mr. T. Bain from the 

 I'aiiatiUuras-zowQ ot Uitkyk, Gouph, shows the extension of 



Fii?. 



GorgoDopsid palate. Figure founded as far as possible on the type 

 specimen of Gorgonops torvun, restored by comparison with an 

 imperfect skull of a Gorgonopsid (Scj/?}i7ius7fchiis tr/iaif si, J^voom?) 

 from the Enilot?iwdo7i-zo\Mi of Beaufort West and the skull which is 

 the subject of the four preceding figures. X |. 



This figure should be compared with Griesbach's excellent 

 lithographic drawings in Owen's ' Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of 

 the Karroo System.' 



the parasplienoid forward to meet and extend some way 

 between the prevoniers *. The specimen described above 



* Dr. Broom has very kindlj- shown me the snout of a Therocephalian 

 skull which exhibits the prevomers separated by a median bone which 

 he determined as a mammalian vomer ; so that this observation shoidd 

 be credited to him. 



