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the later formations and must have travelled very far 

 from their original northern fatherland. 



The variety meridionalis which appears indeed in 

 S. E. Bengal, on the boundary-line with Burmah, in the 

 Chakmas of Rangamati (to the east of Chittagong), and 

 extends into the Indo-Chinese Peninsula is also of low 

 stature and has a nasal index just between the last limit 

 of mesorrhiny and the beginning of platirrhiny, and is 

 decidedly brachycephalic : it is principally on account of 

 this last character that they differ from the former. 



In order that I may not be lightly blamed for reason- 

 ing on averages, let me say that, as in S. E. Asia we find 

 together representatives of both these varieties, I there- 

 fore assign to the variety protomorphus the individuals 

 with more elongated cranium (the forms which it assumes 

 belong to the sphere of skeletal craniology), and to the 

 variety meridionalis, those with a short cranium. If in 

 the other characters, the two varieties are very similar, 

 that indicates precisely that here we have simple varieties, 

 which obviously are by no means pure. The platyrrhiny, 

 which is more pronounced in Assam, shows that some 

 races with equatorial physical characters (which coincide 

 with some residue of the Mon-khmer language) has 

 entered into the mixture. But leaving aside the penin- 

 sula of Malacca, in which we have various protomorphic 

 relics that do not form a part of H. Asiaticm the 

 strongest metamorphism (that is to say, change of 

 form) has come into existence in southern Indo-China, 

 which presents other little known races akin to the 

 Indonesians. 



I conclude by bringing together the anthropological 

 characters of diverse varieties in the following summary, 

 which is obtained from the data that are furnished in 

 extenso in Tables I, II and III, with the exception of the 

 Lolos of Legendre who could not be taken into account 



