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is blunt and juts backwards and slightly outwards, being found 

 just at the point where the deeply sculptured supra-orbital gland- 

 ular depression terminates in front. Contrary to Forbes' state- 

 ment that "well-developed basiptervgoid facets are present in all 



and ( 'vniochorca," ( j). I find tlicm liut ni(Umentary in this 



.spccHiH'n of Pitjjiuus })())•( (dis ( Xo. 1777r). Smithsonian Collec- 

 tions), though thcv arc well-dcvclopcd and functional in a specimen 

 of Pvffinu.s creatopvs (Xo. 1S,773, Smithn. Coll.). In this last- 



