DESCRIPTION OF FIGUKES OF SCULLS, 569 



and constituting thus what has been called a ' capsulares Hinter- 

 haupt^ .' 



Further, if it is incorrect to speak of flatness of the superior 

 squama occipitis as being characteristic of brachy-cephalic crania, it 

 is equally incorrect to say the like of the inferior squama forming the 

 concej)tacnla cereleUi, or to say that tumidity of this region is 

 characteristic of female skulls. For male brachy-cephalic skulls 

 very frequently have their conceptacula cerebeUi prominently convex 

 outwardly, as the great relative and absolute height of such skulls 

 and the great downward pressure of their cerebral hemispheres 

 would have led us to expect. 



' Virchow, Archiv fiii* Aiithropologie, iv. 84, and note to p. 573, infra. 



