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do not at all belong to H. Asiaticus, have entered into 

 the composition of the Japanese people, and in very re- 

 markable proportions. The same may be said of many 

 peoples of Indo-China. Undoubtedly the Chinese also 

 are not homogeneous ; but their impurity and mixture, 

 which are manifest in the north and in the south, 

 are not, considering the large ethnic mass, so serious as 

 among the Japanese. Therefore, we consider H.' Sinicus 

 as quite the same with H. Asiaticm, giving to the latter 

 a concrete and adequate connotation. 



The variety protomorphus is based principally on the 

 results of the " Census of India "* which shows that Assam 

 is peopled by mesaticephalic, meso-platyrrhines of low 

 stature, who are also found here and there in Southern 

 China, viz., in the Lissu, Lolo and Miao-tse tribes. What- 

 ever may be said about the Lolos, it is certain that the 

 figures published by Delisle 2 are purely Mongolian. On 

 the other hand the 29 Lolos, about whom Legendre gave 

 information in 1910 8 that is to say, 19 in a first com- 

 munication and 10 in a second communication which 

 could not be utilised by Ivanovski (who added only the 

 first 19 to the 6 of Delisle) show characters so different, 

 as regards stature and the nasal index that for the time 

 it is necessary to put them aside (although they are tran- 

 scribed in our Tables I, II and III), in order not to preju- 

 dice the diagnosis of this variety. It is not impossible 

 that we are dealing with allogenic residues who in their 

 turn are found amongst other primitive residues of R. 

 Asiatictis, whom I have placed in the variety protomor- 

 phus. Both of them must have been pushed forward by 



1 Cf. RISLEY (H. H.), The People of India, London, 1915, App. iv, p 402. 



8 DELISLE (E.), Sur les caracteres physiques des populations du Tibet Sud Oriental. 

 "Bull, et Mem, Soc. Anthrop.,'\ Paris 1918, p. 473. 



LEQENDER (A.), Les Lolos, " Bull. et. Mem. Soc. Anthrop .," Paris, 1910, p. 77, 

 and of the same author, Far West Ohinois, Aborigines ; Lolos Ibid., p. 520. 



