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from a lower number of rows to a higher can not be denied, and it 

 may therefore be admitted as possible to regard getulus or Jiolhrooki 

 as ancestral. But if we consider that a maximimi of 23 rows and a 

 minimum of 19 is characteristic of 5 of the 8 forms and conmion at 

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evidently specialized in other structural features), it looks as if this 

 were a fundamental character of the getulus group, and as if forms 

 possessing a lower maximum and a lower minimum were distinctly 

 removed from the ancestral condition. 



A glance at the diagram (fig. 25) of extremes and averages of ven- 

 tral plates shows that the eastern forms differ decidedly in this respect. 



