CLASSIFICATION OF THE THERIODONTIA. 



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Arctojys has a depressed and very massive skull, the snout, 

 wlien broken off about 5 cm. in advance of the orbit, being- 

 rectilinear in section, bounded by a .straight dorsal surface which 

 passes somewhat abruptly into straight, nenrly vertical, lateral 

 surfaces. The orbit is small, placed high in the skull, and nearly 

 laterally directed ; its upper margin is continued forward by a 

 ridge separating the dorsal surface from the lachrymal region, 

 which is excavated into a shallow depression. The interorbital 

 region is very wide, forming a flat surface bounded laterally by 

 shallow bays over the orbits. 



Text-fia'nre 1. 



Tab, \.?m. B.Oc Ex.Oc. Au.Gr. 



Arctops iviUistoni Watson. Typo-skull. 

 Dorsal aspect. X-J. 

 B.Oc, basioccipital ; I. Par., interparietal; Sq., squamosal ; Tab., tabular. 



The parietal region, also flat, is even wider than the interorbital 

 surface ; it separates the very small temporal fossfe which face 

 more largely laterally than dorsally. The occipital surface is 

 very wide and is separated from the parietal by a sharp corner. 

 The squamosal is small, consisting mainly of a vertically standmg 

 plate passing directly outward from the end of the massive 

 paroccipital process. The posterior surface of the bone at this 

 articulation is produced backwards into a ridge which forms the 



