274 BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 52 



[Fifteen genera and species are enumerated,] 



"We collected also incomplete fossil human remains of various 

 individuals. [^] . . . 



"As to the skeletal remains, they represent a hitherto unknown 

 race, with characteristics so profoundly distinct and peculiar that I 

 consider it a true species, which I designate by the name of Hojno 

 sinemento. 



"They were very small people, almost pigmies, whose approxi- 

 mate height I calculate at about 1.40 cm. 



"All the bones of the skeleton indicate not only a race of ver}'' 

 small stature but also slender people, not very robust, in consequence 

 of which the muscular insertions on the bones are little marked. 

 Some of the bones, as the femur, calcaneus, and astragalus, present 

 very peculiar features, but their examination would require too much 

 time. I shall occupy myself solely with the skulls. 



' ' These, in agreement with the stature, are veiy small. . . . Both 

 are clearly dolichocephalic. There is nothing extraordinary as to 

 their general form. The mastoids are small and the muscular inser- 

 tions in general but little developed. There is no torus occipitalis 

 and the inion shows scarcely any prominence. 



"The vault is rather low and the front is regularly convex and 

 without a supraorbital arch. There are no supraorbital ridges, but 

 there exists a well-marked transverse depression extending from one 

 to the other of the orbital apophyses of the frontal. 



"The frontal is short and broad, and the coronal suture is nearly 

 transversal, i. e., but little inclined forward and but little arched 

 backward. 



"The glabella in its inferior part does not present an inversion 

 backward, so that the nasion was not located in a depression; in this 

 the spec^imetns agree with the Homo pampseus and the Diprothomo. 



"The orbits are deep, and to judge by the more complete skull 

 they were of greater height than breadth, a primitive character 

 which we alread}- loiow in the Homo pampseus. 



"The rostrum is quite prognathic, but this prognathism is due 

 almost exclusively to the maxilla, which advances much forward. 



"The most noteworthy peculiarities of these skulls are those wliich 

 relate to the dental apparatus and the conformation of the mandible. 



"The teeth are small in proportion to the size of the skull, but well- 

 formed and worn horizontally all to the same level. The canines 

 are more or less of the same size as the incisors and premolars, and 

 their crowns do not reach higher than those of the contiguous teeth. 



[> It is puzzling that not a word is said of the numerous white quartzite flakes, rejects, and implements 

 which strewed the same playa, some of these, as was seen later, being in close proximity to the grave. 

 These stones were considered by F. Anieghino much more recent than those included in the above- 

 mentioned industry of pitdra hendida.] 



