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deep-lying tongue of the fades te?;zs,which reaches the sutura 

 transversa. The cerebellar fossa? are tolerably rounded out, the 

 fades muscularis more deeply marked. No large emissaria 

 mastoidea, but instead of this a larger foramen on either side, 

 near the crista perpendicular is. The foramen magnum is 

 rounded posteriorly, more oval anteriorly, 31 mm. in length, 

 26 in breadth, therefore 83*8. The articulation prominent and 

 bent ; processus mastoides poorly developed, with a deep 

 depression ; processus styloides large. Apophysis basilaris 

 lying somewhat flat ; processus pterygoides with spreading 

 lamina externa ; deep fossa? for the lower jaw. 



In the norma frontalis the middle and anterior part of 

 the head seems high, the region of the fontanelle raised, 

 the face, however, short and narrow. Orbits low and almost 

 four-cornered ; index 76*9, therefore strongly chamaekonch. 

 Fissura spJieno maxillaris spreading out in front. The outer 

 edge of the orbits bent inwards a little just below the 

 sutura zygomatico frontalis, inasmuch as here the processus 

 frontalis of the malar bone is somewhat bent inward poste- 

 riorly. The nose low, narrow above where it articulates with 

 the broad nasal process of the frontal bone, the bridge bent 

 in and somewhat rounded, but prominent and aquiline, the 

 aperture broad below, narrow above, hence triangular ; 

 index 57*7, therefore platyrrhine ; canine fossa full, foramina 

 infraorbitalia large, and especially the left one, communi- 

 cating with a roundish depression on the surface of the 

 canine fossa. Alveolar process short, in the middle 13 mm. 

 long, obliquely prominent. Alveola? broad, palate large, 

 especially long ; index 75*4, therefore leptostaphyline. The 

 sutura transversa palati very much forward, 17 mm. in 

 front of the spina nasalis posterior, which is short and 

 rounded away. The alveolar process is widely curved in 

 front, almost straight at the sides, slightly converging 

 behind. Hence the palate long, of prognathous character, 

 and somewhat pithecoid in form. The malar bones on 

 both sides have a fissure posteriorly beginning at the sutura 



