No. 33. — 1886.] THE VEDDAS OF CEYLON. 



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muscles strong, but the frontal eminences not very prominent. 

 The bones are yellow-brown, smooth, shiny, and hard. 



The skull is in reality smaller than it appears ; it has only 

 a capacity of 1,110 cub. cm. The index of ratio between 

 length and breadth is 71*3, and is strongly dolichocephalous, 

 between length and height 72*5, orthocephalus. 



In the norma verticalis the roof of the skull appears long 

 and narrow, tapering toward back and front, moderately 

 phsenozygomatic, the tubera parietalia spreading out 

 broadly. The skull is unsymmetrical (plagiocephalic), 

 especially behind and below, where upon the left side, but 

 still on the parietal bone, there is to be observed an oblique 

 flattening, whilst the right side is more fully rounded out. 

 In front the form is more regular, although the right half of 

 the forehead is somewhat awry, and the right zygomatic arch 

 shorter than the left ; the nose diverges a little to the left, 

 and the palatal suture at the back part turns a little to the 

 left. The sagittal suture, also, is not exactly median. Many 

 signs are visible of premature synosteosis : thus, on either 

 side, but more extensively on the left, in the midst of the 

 side parts of the coronal suture, and at different points of the 

 sagittal suture, of which the right emissary is wanting and 

 the left very small. The lower side parts of the coronal 

 • suture are quite obliterated on the left for a length of 30 mm., 

 and on to the right of 22 mm. The open sutures are compara- 

 tively simple, yet the sagittal suture in its middle, and 

 the lambdoidal suture, have pretty large and broad indentures. 

 The latter at the point is very much depressed, and at the 

 sides, especially the left, there are several wormian bones. 

 On either side, in the region where usually the sutura trans- 

 versa occipitis begins, we find a wormian bone reaching to 

 the parietal bone, larger on the left side, but in its middle 

 and upper part synosteotic. 



In a lateral view of the skull it appears long and low, 

 the brow itself low and rather sloping, the tubera frontalia 

 tmly tolerably distinct, the front of the skull long and 



