710 PROFESSOR SIR W. TURNER ON 



Surgeon V. L. Watts, who was quartered at Fort Lungley, about fifteen miles to the 

 west of Fort Tregear. In digging it up the left side of the face was injured. 



The skulls had all reached adult life, but one was aged. Four were presumably 

 men and one a woman. The North Lushai skull, from the Poi Boi village, was 

 metopic. 



Three of the crania were elongated and ovoid, though the metopic skull was broader 

 in proportion to the length than the two others. H was somewhat ridged and roof-like 

 in the sagitto-parietal region, whilst the others were more flattened. G and H were, 

 dolichocephalic, but the metopic skull was mesaticephalic. In G and in the metopic 

 skull the height was less than the breadth, but in H the reverse was seen. None 

 of the skulls was akroccphalic. In G, immediately behind the coronal suture, a shallow 

 transverse constriction, such as is produced by wearing a head-band during infancy, was 

 seen ; this skull was cryptozygous, the two others were phamozygous. In these skulls 

 the glabella and supra-orbital ridges were feeble, and the forehead w T as almost vertical ; 

 the cranial vault was fairly arched in the fronto-parietal region. In H the curve in the 

 parieto-occipital region was gradual, and ended in a remarkably elongated inion, which 

 formed the projecting occipital pole of the cranium. In the other two skulls the 

 parieto-occipital slope was shorter and more abrupt, and the occipital squama projected 

 behind the inion. In these skulls the parietal bones, from the obelion to the lambda, 

 were flattened. The mastoid processes and temporal curved lines were moderate in two 

 skulls, but in H the temporal lines were strongly marked behind, and approached to 

 within 34 mm. of the sagittal suture. Owing to the occipital squama in H being 

 remarkably small both vertically and transversely, it measured only 43 mm. from 

 lambda to inion, and was only 55 mm. wide. As the temporal lines joined the 

 lambdoidal suture only 34 mm. from the inion, three definite areas were marked in 

 this region, viz., a mesial, between the two temporal ridges, and a right and left lateral, 

 extending from the temporal ridge to the mastoid-temporal. The nuchal impressions 

 in the occipital bone were strongly marked. 



In these crania, the occipital arc was the shortest, the frontal was the longest in 

 G and H, but in the metopic skull the parietal was much the longest. All three 

 specimens rested behind on the cerebellar part of the occiput. The mean interzygoiuatic 

 diameter was 127 '6. 



In all three the bridge of the nose was faintly concave, and the nasal bones pro- 

 jected so slightly that the face was flattened in the nasal region, and in H the nasals 

 were short and narrow. The fronto-nasal suture w 7 as not depressed ; the nasal spine ol 

 the superior maxillae was moderate, and the incisive surface of the upper jaw was marked 

 off from the floor of the nose by a definite ridge. In the metopic skull the nasal index 

 was leptorhine, in the others mesorhine. In G the upper jaw was slightly prognathic, 

 in II and in the metopic skull, orthognathic ; in all, the incisive and canine fossa: were 

 moderate in depth. The orbits, though wider than high, were megaseme in G and in 

 the metopic skull, but mesoseme in H. The palate was much broader than long in these 



