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strongly marked. The forehead only slightly receded. The nasal bones were 

 prominent and with usually a good bridge, but in No. 65 the bridge was flattened. 

 The nasal spine of the superior maxillse was moderate ; in some specimens the nasal 

 floor was separated from the incisive region by a ridge ; in others, as in No. 65, they 

 rounded off into each other. In seven specimens the nasal index was mesorhine ; in 

 one, leptorhine ; in two, platyrhine. In six crania the upper jaw was orthognathous ; 

 in two, mesognathous, and in one, No. 65, prognathous. In six the orbital index was 

 mesoseme ; in three, microseme ; in one, megaseme. As regards the relative length and 

 breadth of the palato-alveolar arch, five specimens were mesuranic, one was dolichuranic, 

 two were brachyuranic. The four crania in which the length of the entire face could 

 be taken, were practically leptoprosopic or high faced. 



The cranial sutures, as a rule, were simple ; in four skulls, Wormian bones were 

 present in the lambdoidal suture, and in one of these, No. 65, the right half of the 

 upper occipital was an independent bone; in No. 415, two sutnral bones were in the 

 sagittal behind the obelion. In one skull on both sides, and in another on the left side, 

 the squamous temporal articulated with the frontal ; in three crania, epipteric bones 

 were present, in two of these on both sides, in one on one side. Three skulls showed 

 the infra-orbital suture. One skull, No. 98, was edentulous ; in one, the teeth were 

 stained with betel. No skull was metopic, or possessed a third condyl, paramastoid 

 process or auditory exostosis. They were cryptozygous, and mostly rested behind on 

 the occipital bone. The muscular ridges and processes were not strong. The mean 

 cranial capacity in the men was 1336 c.c, and ranged from 1212 to 1530 c.c. ; in the 

 three women, the mean capacity was 1176 c.c. 



Br achy cephalic Series. — Five of the crania marked Uriya were brachy cephalic 

 in form and proportions. Three were apparently males and two females. (Table VIII.) 

 In the norma verticalis the crania were rounded, and the male skulls, with one 

 exception, had a less glabello-occipital length than the shortest male skull in the 

 dolichocephalic group ; whilst the female skulls were shorter than the female dolicho- 

 cephalic Uriyas. The sagittal region was not ridged, and the crania generally were 

 more flattened at the vertex than in the dolichocephali. The parietal eminences were 

 prominent, especially in No. 38, and in the norma occipitalis the skulls had a 

 pentagonal form. In four crania there was evidence of parietooccipital flattening, 

 more particularly in the h}^per-brachycephalic skull, No. 417, in which the parieto- 

 occipital region was almost vertical ; the pressure had produced in two skulls an 

 unsymmetrical projection to the right, and in two others to the left. In No. 38 the 

 occipital region was rounded, and projected behind the inion. The cephalic index 

 ranged from 80 to 88*2, and the mean was 83*7. In all, the occipital longitudinal arc 

 was the shortest ; in three, the frontal arc was longer than the parietal ; in two, the 

 parietal was the longer. In all, the basi-bregmatic diameter was less than the parieto- 

 squamous, and the mean vertical index was 79*2. 



The glabella and supra-orbital ridges were feeble ; the forehead was almost vertical ; 



