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The Asiatic Leucoderms, according to our scheme of 

 classification already published, 1 belong either to Homo 

 indoeuropceus doliehomorphiia or to Plomo indoeuropa'ns 

 hrachymorplim, two varieties of H. indoeuropo?i(s, or 77. 

 occidentalis^ that are met with also in Europe. 



The Dolichamorphus Whites, one may follow up more 

 or less clearly from the Mediterranean up to Cashghar and 

 to India, but with great variations in stature and appre- 

 ciable variations also in the ceph. ind. according to 

 Biasutti's map V. It is doubtful whether they are all 

 related to the Mediterraneans, or whether there are 

 representatives of the Nordics with fair hair and light 

 blue eyes. Both the branches having proceeded from 

 the anthropogenic centre of N. W. Asia, the initial 

 difference between them must have been very slight or 

 none at all, and it is reasonable to think that those who 

 came last have better conserved the leucodermic charac- 

 ters. The last comers are the Iranians, whose arrival in 

 their present habitat may be referred to about the middle 

 of the 9th century B.C. : to them von Luschan assigns the 

 Curds, seen by him, who have elongated crania, fine hair 

 and light blue eyes. 2 On the other hand, these last two 

 peculiarities were not observed in the Curds by Chantre. 3 



The Brachymorpkw Whites are found in various areas 

 of anterior Asia intermixed with the Dolichomorphus, 



1 GlUFFRlDA-llUGGERl (V.), Schema di classifieds i one degli Hominidae attuali 

 "Arch, per 1'Antrop. e 1'Etnol.," XL11, 1912, fasc. 1, p. 141, and alao L'Uomo ottuale, 

 op. cit., p. 156. 



9 VON LUSCHAN (F.), The Early Inhabitants of Western Asia. " Journ. R. Anthrop. 

 Inst.," XLI, 1911, p. 299. He adds that they speak aa Aryan Language allied to 

 Modern Persian. 



3 CHANTRE (E.). op. cit., pp. 104-105, 242. See alao by the same author : 

 Recherches anthropologiques aur le Cnucase. T. TV, Populations actuelles, Paris Lyon. 

 1887, p. 263. 



