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chamaeprosopic. In the platyrhine skull, C, the floor of the nose was continued by a 

 smooth surface into the incisive region, and the maxillo-nasal spine was feeble, the upper 

 jaw was mesognathic, the face was low both in the complete and maxillo-facial regions, and 

 the orbital apertures were also low. In D and E the jaw was orthognathic. In D the 

 face was relatively long and the orbit was rounded ; in E the orbits were low. In all 

 three the palato-maxillary region was moderately wide. 



The cranial sutures were not obliterated, and as a rule were simple. D and E 

 had small Wormian bones in the lambdoid, and D had a large right epipteric. No 3rd 

 condyl or paracondylar process was present, but E had a pair of small pointed processes 

 projecting downwards immediately in front of the basion. The teeth were stained 

 with betel and partially worn. The lower jaws were moderate in dimensions and with 

 good chins. 



The mean external dimensions were as follows : length, 173'3 mm. ; height, 133*3 ; 

 breadth, 128*3 ; horizontal circumference, 493 ; vertical transverse circumference, 409*3 ; 

 total longitudinal circumference, 494*3 mm. In each skull the height was more than the 

 breadth ; the mean vertical index was 76*9, hypsicephalic ; the mean cephalic index was 

 74, dolichocephalic ; the breadth-height index was hypsistenocephalic. The mean facial 

 indices were as follows : gnathic, 95*2, orthognathic ; complete facial in two skulls with 

 lower jaws, 83*2, chamaeprosopic ; maxillo-facial in three skulls, 45*8, mesoprosopic ; 

 nasal, 49*2, mesorhine ; orbital, 87*5, mesoseme ; palato-maxillary, 116*3, brachyuranic. 

 The mean nasio-malar index was 109*2. The intracranial capacity ranged from 1225 

 c.c. to 1375, and the mean was 1316 c.c. 



The skull D, from Denodera, was accompanied by many of the other bones of the 

 skeleton, and, with the exception of the sternum, a few vertebrae and ribs, and some of 

 the small bones of the hands and feet, the skeleton was in good order and complete. 



Pelvis. — The pelvis had definite male characters, though in external dimensions it 

 was small for an adult and considerably below the European standard. The breadth, 

 231 mm., exceeded the height, 189 mm., and the breadth-height index was 81*8. The 

 subpubic angle was 68°. The tubercle of the iliac crest was moderate, the alae were 

 somewhat expanded, and the iliac fossae scarcely transmitted any light. The pectineal 

 lines and pubic spines were low ; the muscular ridges were feeble. Each prse-auricular 

 sulcus was a shallow, vertical groove. The transverse diameter of the pelvic brim 

 exceeded the conjugate, and the pelvic index was 94*6, i.e. in the mesatipellic group. 

 The obturator foramen had a relatively high index, 72*2. The anterior surface of the 

 sacrum had a shallow concavity ; the upper three vertebrae had sacral spines, but in 

 the 4th and 5th the laminae had not united mesially, and terminated in blunt processes 

 which represented bifid spines. The 1st coccygeal vertebra was fused with the last 

 sacral, but was not included in the measurement of sacral length. The breadth of the 

 base of the sacrum slightly exceeded the length of the bone, and the index, 102, placed 

 the bone in the lower term of the platyhieric group. 



