1895.] from the North-West Provinces of India. 287 



numerous wormian bones. Supraorbital foramina are present on 

 both sides. The occiput is irregular and prominent. Supraciliary 

 ridges are very slightly raised. Skull asymmetrical (left side large) 

 and cryptozygous. 



In most of these crania from persons over 30 years of age, 

 those portions of the coronal suture that lie just below the 

 stephanion are synostosed. Eight of the skulls are cryptozygous 

 and fifteen phsenozygous. There is no relation between the 

 cryptozygous condition and the size (i.e. cranial capacity) of the 

 skull; ]No. 1220, that of a Musahar from Patna, with a capacity of 

 1005 c.c, and No. 1250, a Pathan from near the Khyber Pass, of 

 1747 c.c. capacity, were both cryptozygous. 



Two of the skulls present a median frontal crest, extending 

 from the bregma forwards and fading away towards the ophryon. 

 The other cranial sutures of the skull are also sometimes ridged. 

 These ridges may be seen in skulls 1222, and 1249. Behind 

 the coronal suture in six skulls, on both sides, and in one, 

 on one side only, there is a depression. 



In sixteen skulls supplementary bones are present. These 

 consist of interparietal or epactal bones, or wormian bones, in the 

 lambdoid, sagittal, coronal, squamo-sphenoidal and squamo-parietal 

 sutures. 



The supraciliary ridges were prominent in only three skulls. 

 In the remaining twenty skulls they were slightly marked and the 

 brow usually smooth. 



In one skull (1233) of male of the Sansi (or gipsy) caste a third 

 occipital condyle was present upon the right side. 



Only two of the skulls presented marked asymmetry. In both 

 of these the bulging was on the left side. 



The greatest glabello-occipital length was 195 mm. This was 

 in the skull of a low caste Hindoo male, 1213. The next to this 

 was 192 mm. in two skulls, both of males, of Chuhra (1222) and 

 Pathan (1250) respectively. The smallest glabello-occipital dia- 

 meter was 168 mm., in the skull of a male low caste Hindoo 

 (1218). The next were 169 mm. in the skull of a male Dhanuk 

 (1221) and 170 mm. in the skull of a male Musahar (1220). 



The greatest ophryo-occipital diameter is 194 mm. in a low 

 caste Hindoo male skull (1213). The least, 168 mm, in the 

 skulls of a low caste Hindoo male (1218) and in the Dhanuk male 

 skull (1221), 



The greatest breadth was 141 mm., in two skulls, one of a 

 Panjabi Mussulman (1701) and one of a male Pathan (1250), 

 The least was 121 mm., in two skulls, one a male Musahar 

 (1220) and the other in a female Dusadh (1703). 



