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e.xpected tli.'it llie Aru representative of this type of })at would 

 either be identical witli its nearest ji^eo^'raphical neiglibour, Wi. e. 

 pivcsfans, or perliaps exliil)it the j)eculiarities characteristic of tliis 

 latter race in a still more exaggerated degree. The true fact, as 

 shown al)ov(', is (juite difierent : Rh. e. arxenùs is inucli more 

 .similar to the; Batchian tiian to the Key Island race, so that 

 beginning witli Uh. e. pr(j3stans tliere is a « falling oti' » in the 

 size of the horse-shoe and skull both northwards, through Anilwina 

 to Batchian, and eastwards to the Aru Islands. Thus the races 

 occupying the perij)liery of the known area of /j*//. eunjoiis are 

 more alike than the geogra})liic;d neighlxjurs, Wi. e, prcestans 

 and aruensis. 



Measurements of li/ilnolopJucs euryolis. 



