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in the previous specimens. There is a supra-orbital notch on each side, and several 

 subsidiary foramina are noticeable, especially on the right. 



The infraorbital foramina are large and duplicated. 



No traces of infraorbital sutures persist, but the malar bones are excluded 

 from the inferior orbital fissures, completely on the left, and in all but the e.xtenl 

 of a pinpoint on the right. 



The inferior nasal margins are markedly rounded, giving the aperture a 

 pithecoid appearance ; the right side is distinguished by a pathological guttering, 

 beginning on the floor of the inferior meatus of the nose in relation with the 

 nasal septum, wliich is strongly deflected to the same side. 



There is some sub-nasal prognathism. 



The teeth, of which nine remain (the others having ])ccn lost post-mortem ) 

 are sound, stained black by betel-nut, only slightly worn, and surround a broad. 

 deep, long, horseshoe-shaped palate. 



In norma basilaris the pterygoids are seen to be exceedingly broad and 

 winged; the palatine suture irregularly cruciform (Fig. 62) ; the basilosphenoid 

 suture ossified: and on either side of the foramen magnum (which is sym- 

 metrical ) are post-condyloid canals ; that on the left being subdivided into two 

 by a bony spicule. 



SPECIMEN G. 

 Plate xli, and Fig. 63. 



Skull. Adolescent act. c. 15-17. 



Dolichocephalic; plagiocephalic; mesoseme ; leptorrhinc ; dolichuranic. 



Capacity: 1260 cc. 



Melanesian : Gazelle I-^eninsula, New Britain. Reg. A. 11430. 



The specimen here described is one in which an accidental deformation has 

 produced a plagiocephaly, associated with the formation of numerous Wormian 

 bones in the lambdoid suture and a large single right epipteric bone. 



The skull is light, small, probably that of an adolescent female. The ridges 

 for muscular attachment are slight, the mastoid processes, glabella and super- 

 ciliary ridges very small; the angular process of the malar bone narrow. 



In iioniia vcrticalis it is a short ovoid in outline and irregular, a line drawn 

 through the middle points being concave to the left and convex to the right. 



In norma lateralis one notes the low but rounded frontal bone, the absence 



