CiLENTO — Artificially Distorted Skulls 



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In iioniia basilaris there are several points of interest. 

 The palate is elliptical, there are remains of the inter- 

 maxillary suture a few mm. in extent ; the palatine suture 

 posteriorly is irregularly cruciform (one palate bone 

 being slightly wider than the other) ; and a torus takes 

 the place of the usual postnasal spine. 



The basilospheiioid suture is almost entirely fused; 

 llie pharyngeal si)ine replaced b)- a pit. 



At the anterior border of the oval foramen magnum 

 is a distinct facet for articulation with the odontoid of 

 the axis. P^^ j„ 



The coronal, sagittal and lambdoid sutures are patent Palatomaxillary sutures, 

 throughout. 



SPECIMEN 2. 



Plate xx.xvii and Figs. 58. 59. 



.Skull. Adolescent, aet. c. 18-20. Dolichocephalic; Prognathous; mesoseme ; 



leptorrhine ; dolichuranic. 

 Capacity — 1190 cc. 

 Papuo-melanesian: Ablinghi, S. Coast New Britain. Reg. A. 11426. {Coll. 



Dr. A. C. Magarey.) 



This specimen has been stained dark brown, probably by smoke, and 

 although its deformation is not so extreme as that of Specimen i. it is of a very 

 general type. 



Si^traorbtial 

 foramen 



uifraorbital 

 faramen 



Cauift/ 



for osaidt. 



forametii 



Fig. 5S. Left orbit showing aberrant ossicle, present also on right side and in Specimen I. 



