386 CRANIA FROM THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA. 



3 mm.; radix 8mm., 80° ; salient 30°. — Nasal vestibule analophic ; incisor eminence 

 rudimental; incisor crest almost nil ; small posterior process and conspicuous spine. 

 Spinal crest conspicuous not trenchant. Alveolar line nil. — Hard palate with, pro- 

 nounced alveolar process 20 mm ; choanse peedomorphic. Lambcloidal suture serrate 

 near asterion. — Marginal process of malar bone conspicuous ; bone in sphenomaxil- 

 lary fissure ; suture-trace evident. — Epipteric bone on right side ; fronto-sphenoidal 

 and other sutures closed in left temporal fossa, but open on right. Many parieto- 

 occipital Wormian bones. — Lachrymal bone confined entirely to plane of os planum 

 and has small part in lachrymal duct. This is a hylobatean feature. The hamular 

 process united to maxilla ; lachrymo-planal suture 6 mm. long. 



748 9 , Arickaree. Aged 45 years, — cymbecephalic. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridge rudimental ; superior orbital margin inclined, 

 40°. — Nasal bones compressed; mutilated; frontal part 4 mm. Nasal vestibule 

 analophic ; incisor eminence none, spinal crest salient, alveolar border trenchant. 

 Alveolar line not extending beyond canine eminence. Spine single conspicuous. — 

 Alveolar process everywhere produced, parabolic. — Foramen lacerum medium, small 

 6 mm.; sphenoido-tympanic suture not overlapped. — Upper margin alisphenoid pro- 

 cess 40 mm. long ; mortise present at post-squamosa ; occipito-squamosal suture 

 obliterated; platybasic ; greatest transverse diameter bi-squamosal. . Malar bone 

 marginal process marked ; not in spheno-maxillaiy fissure ; suture-trace present. 



213 9 , Nasqua (Naas), Fort Simpson. Aged 40 years, — eurycephalic. 



Glabella and supra-orbital ridge marked, 3 mm.; orbital margin scarcely 

 inclined ; supra-orbital canal far above orbital margin. — Nasal bones 28 mm.; frontal 

 part 6 mm., remaining portion 29 mm., acutely arched; radix 11 mm., 90° ; salient 

 14 mm., 50°. Nasal vestibule analophic; incisor eminence and alveolar line none. 

 Spinal ridge sub-trenchant, limiting spine conspicuously ; alveolus high. — Lachrymal 

 bone with hamular process joining maxilla. — Hard palate hyperbolic ; choanal scarcely 

 wide at base. Spinous processes enormous, overlapping the petroso-sphenoiclal 

 fissure. Petrosa markedly asymmetrical, the left being the larger. Fronto- 

 temporal crest prominent. Parieto-temporal riclge and transverse occipital torus 

 unite for 20 mm. at asterion to form a nearly harmonic suture. — Malar bone widely 

 flanging ; suture-trace on outer side left, marked on inner side right and left ; 

 marginal process conspicuous. — Sconce 56 mm. only ; the smallest observed in the 

 series. Phsenozygomous. — Skull rests on conceptacula. The torus transversus 

 occipitalis well developed, reaching within 47 mm. of asterion; inion prominent. 



This heavy, large skull with prominent glabella and supra-orbital ridge, 

 narrow nasal aperture, high alveolus, large spinous processes, enormous hard palate 

 and strong, closely approximated temporal ridges apppears strangely out of place 

 with the smaller, smoother browed specimens elsewhere from the Pacific Coast. 

 The shape of the nose recalls the Alaskan forms, while the broad low post-tuberal 

 region of the occipital norma is the same as the other skulls of the series. . 



