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be supported by the fact of finding ossified granules in the 
fontanelle of somewhat older individuals (PL 
II. fig. 1.). Only one large supraciliary (supracil. principale) beginning 
at the first supraocular’s anterior part and ending in the middle of second 
supraocular ; it completely covers the supraorbital 
on the upper surface, the latter bone can thus be observed in 
the side view of the skull, reaching with its outer border that of the supra¬ 
ciliary (PL II. fig. 4.). Supraorbital somewhat elongate-triangular, 
from its lateral corners the outer one being the longer (PL II. fig. 5.). Retro- 
ciliary may be present. J u g a 1 e slender, its hind point very short 
and slightly blunt. In the examined specimens the suture between the 
two postfrontalia (PL II. fig. 7.) is visible ; both but feebly incrusted, 
the outer one more feebly still than the inner one ; both long and narrow, 
the outer cuneiform, considerably narrower than the inner, ending in a long 
and narrow point, which somewhat exceeds the inner postfrontale’s hind 
border, thus both limiting the foramen supratemporale. Foramen 
supratemporale of an elongate-triangular shape in the older spe¬ 
cimen examined® larger in the somewhat younger one. I could find no bones 
on temporal region. Pterygoid bones gracile, slightly diverging; 
the space between them is narrow, before the basisphenoid bilaterally 
enlarging in a slight curve; no teeth on pterygoids (PL II. fig. 2.). Basi¬ 
sphenoid tolerably narrow, processi pterygoidei tolerably 
slender. Quadrates not strongly diverging, thus pterygoid bones 
almost invisible from above. In the intermaxillary about 6—7, in the maxil¬ 
lary on one side 16—17, and in the mandible on one side 21—22 teeth. 
The intermaxillary teeth are one pointed, the maxillary ones bicuspid, 
whilst the front teeth of the mandible are one pointed, the following ones 
bicuspid the back ones approaching the tricuspid type (PL III. fig. 1.). 
Turbinalia. The importance of this small bone was justly recog¬ 
nized by Prof. Méhely, who was the first in designating it as a good cri¬ 
terium in the systematic and phylogenetical study of the Lizards (and 
Snakes). He published his observations regarding this subject in the VIH-th 
volume of the Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. (p. 217—280, PL VI.) under the title 
of «Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Archæo- und Neolacerten». In the 
present description I follow the nomenclature which he established in the 
same paper. 
Prof. Méhely chose three positions in which the turbinalia should 
be viewed and in which they can stand by themselves, so as to enable us 
at each occasion to examine these bones under the microscope in the same 
natural positions. Considering the practical worth of this method I shall 
make use of it in the present treatise. Before describing the bones in ques- 
