1880.] 



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6. In most of the Alopecoids, the contour of the inferior margin 

 of the angular process continues the direction of that of the inferior 

 margin of the ramus in front of it ; and this slopes gradually up- 

 wards and backwards. In C. littoralis and C. cinereo-aryentatus, 

 however, the inferior contour of the ramus in the region of the 



Fig. 8. 



A. Dorsal aspect of the right half of the skull of C. aearm (a) ; B. the eame of 

 the left half of C. littoralis : of the natural size. 



attachment of the digastric muscle, in front of the angular process, 

 is inclined almost at right angles to the latter, and forms a sort 

 of rounded " subangular lobe" beneath the angular process. 



