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ridge forming a circle, with a dot in the center, the reduction to its 

 lowest terms, there is at least one of the three triradii, and a 

 possibility of treating a prominent fork as another one. 



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FIG. 10. Photographic enlargement of the left interdigital pattern 

 of No. 1056. Compare with Figs. 6 and 7. 



Interdigital II., between the index finger and the middle one, is 

 always rare and never more than a loop at best. In hands looked 

 over for this very pattern, my collection gives the following: 



European- Americans (females) 200 hands 5 cases 



Japanese (males) 166 hands 7 cases 



Japanese (females) 224 hands. . 2 cases 



Chinese (equal number of males and females) 200 hands i case 



Fig. 13, taken from my Japanese collection, gives as good an 

 example of this rare pattern as I have. This hand is interesting as 

 showing also the 1 1 Id and a rudiment of a IVth, indicated by the 

 convergence of the ridges in the proper place. This rudimentary 

 condition seen here is also quite likely to occur on the area desig- 

 nated for this pattern. Fig. 14 also from a Japanese male, shows 



