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coincide with those that I have shown for the ceph. 

 ind., confirming the existence of some distinct human 

 varieties. 



Also in Map VI of Biasutti which is devoted to the 

 variations of the nasal index, the extreme N. E. is seen 

 isolated by a high grade of leptorrhiny which is charac- 

 teristic of the Eskimos and of the Chukchi, while the 

 extreme S. E., that is to say, Indo-China, is distinguished 

 by the opposite feature. In analogy with the nasal index 

 are distributed the variations of the fac. ind., which are 

 seen in Map V of Biasutti. While among all the great 

 mass of the Palaeoarctics, the Altaics and the central 

 Asiatics, the face is predominantly mesoprosopic (fac. ind. 

 83-8 5'9), the extreme N. E. is distinguished by a certain 

 frequency of leptoprosopy, which agrees with the low 

 nasal index, and this also is seen in the Chinese of the 

 north and in some groups of Central Asia. The opposite 

 fact is observed in Indo-China, and this is in accord with 

 the high nasal index (platyrrhiny). 



I pass over the Ainus and the Japanese : the first, 

 because they have been considered by Biasutti as one of 

 the most ancient branches of H. Oceanicus. Certainly 

 here we have a local form whose relationship to H. Asia- 

 ticus has very little support and that only in the colour 

 of the skin. We, instead, allocate them among the proto- 

 morphic relics, 1 who have been placed in the last three 

 tables. 



The Japanese, about whom there can be no doubt that 

 they are Xanthoderms, have been allocated to the un- 

 classified groups of these, it not being possible to use the 

 average of their anthropological characteristics for the 

 reason that the averages are obtained from values differ- 

 ing much from each other : many varieties, some of which 



We shall return to them at the end of this essay. 



