406 



CRANIA FROM THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA. 



730 <?, Seminole. Aged 25 years, — stenocephalia. Figure 3. 



Glabella small ; forehead slightly receding ; outer part orbital arch abruptly 

 inclined. — Nasal bones convex. Nasal vestibule microlophic ; incisor eminence 

 conspicuous ; alveolar line defective ; spine double. — Hard palate deep hyperbolic. — 

 Spinous process large with a wide interval between it and the smaller tympanic 

 process. — Petrosa inflated. — Foramen lacerum medium nearly closed ; pterygoid 

 fossa psedomorphic, as also is the sphenoido-vomerine junction. Foramen spinosum 

 and foramen ovale almost confluent. — Squamoso-frontal suture present. — Marginal 

 process of malar bone marked ; the bone enters into the spheno-maxillary fissure 



{Norma frontalis. ) 



Fig. 2. — Lenape, 1,264 J , showing persistent inter- 

 froutal suture. 



(Norma frontalis. ) 

 Fig. 3. — Seminole, 730 % , showing persistent inter- 

 frontal suture. 



symmetrically. — Skull rests on the condyles. Os incse and numerous Wormians 

 present. Uncinate process in front of well defined bulla ; lachrymal bones ossified 

 with maxillge. The right side of nose distinctly the smaller. 



In an Araucanian, No. 654, aged 25 years, a persistent interfrontal suture is 

 present. The skull is platycephalic, nose depressed ; nasal index 55 mm. ; skull 

 length 169 mm., height 123 mm., breadth 135 mm. Nasal vestibule analophic; 

 prognathic, alveolar line trenchant; with shallow hyperbolic hard palate; small 

 os planum and bulla ethmoidalis ; Ca. 1,265. This skull differs from the North 

 American specimens in being platycephalic and prognathic ; but agrees with Semi- 

 nole No. 730 and Moore series No. 1,781 in having a hyperbolic hard palate. On 

 the whole it is nearer Leni Lenape, No. 1,264 and Arickaree, No. 949. 



While the metopic suture is rarely open, a well marked convexity in the middle 

 line of the frontal bone well up toward the bregma is not uncommon. An example 



