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THE VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



i6th. Skopeloid {skopcloidcs) (Fig. 36). 



The form which I call " rock-like " (skopelos) is very curious. 

 It has a summit on the posterior part of the cranium which slopes 

 from every side, and at the occiput descends rapidly to the base. 

 The cranium is large, wide at the base, with a narrow forehead, 

 and the frontal slightly sloping, following the inclined plane of the 

 posterior summit. 



Fig. 35.— Placuntoides. 



This form is difficult to describe, and Fig. 36 gives an imperfect 

 idea of it. 



Fig. 36.— Skopeloides Samniticus. 

 Of this variety, so characteristic and quite common in Samos, 

 I have seen some which are microcephalous^ in Samos and like- 

 wise in the Russian Kourgans, although there very rare. 



