the Ccelacanth Fish. 



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uniting by deeply striate sutural surfaces. The quadrate 

 stands out nearly transversely, but the inner condyle — an 

 almost heinisplierical head — lies a little in front of the cylin- 

 droid outer condyle, whose lateral surface is sliglitly concave. 



The nietapterygoid is a relatively large sheet of bone lying 

 on the outer surface of the pterygoid. Its hinder margin is 

 turned outward and ends dorsally in a process which to-uches 

 the lower surface of the parietal. The upper border is divided 

 into two concavities by a low elevation in the middle of its 

 lengtli. This general concavity surrounds the })rocess of 

 the sphenoid called basipterygoid by Stensio. In three cases 



Macropoma inantelli. Left ptevj^go-quadrate apparatus 

 without. X 1. 



seen from 



Refereuce-letters as before, with Pal.Th., the tooth-lDearing plate 

 attached to the palatine, represented displaced. The epiptery- 

 goid is also slightly twisted backward. 



where I have removed the metapterj^goid in exposing the 

 brain-case, I have satisfied myself tiiat there is no contact 

 between the two elements, which are always separated by a 

 layer of chalk and do not bear any articular facets. 



The anterior end of the nietapterygoid is produced into a 

 long process of nearly cylindrical section, whose lower and 

 part of whose admesian surfaces are supported by a long 

 splint of bone projecting from the upper margin of the 

 pterygoid. 



