No. 33.— 1886.] the veddAs of ceylon. 



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below. At their extremities posteriorly an irregular, trape- 

 zoidal epiptericum, 11 long, 8 high, with indented edges, 

 which towards the front are somewhat indistinct. The 

 angulus parietalis is very short, and as far as can be judged 

 with the synosteosis of the lower part of the coronal suture, and 

 the adjoining part of the spheno frontalis, is prevented from 

 coming in contact with the ala up to a distance of 4 mm. 



Bight. Left. 

 Direct breadth of the ala sphen. above ... 21 mm. ... 24 mm. 



Do. do, below ... 12 mm. ... 15 mm. 



The norma occipitalis shows very high straight sides, with 

 simple flattened arching of the roof, and a straight base. 

 Lambdoidal sutures jagged. Squama supcrioris strongly 

 arched, but short, somewhat flattened laterally and below. 

 Plainly marked linea semicircular is suprema. At the upper 

 end of the crista perpendicularis a large irregular protube- 

 rance, very deep depression below the linea? semicircular es 

 superiores. Large cerebellar archings with depressions 

 between well-developed emissaria mastoidea. 



Basis cranii long, and protruding behind. Mastoid pro- 

 cess small, with deep fissures. The foramen magnum small, 

 31 mm. long, 28 mm. broad, index 90*3, very prominent 

 articulating surfaces, very long and strong styloid processes. 

 In the centre of the basilar apophysis a large basilar foramen 

 entering obliquely posteriorly, which corresponds to a 

 deep irregularly sinuous sulcus on the surface of the clivus 

 Blumenbachii, which, above and at the left, seems to have 

 communicated with the sinus cavernosus. Deep and wide 

 articular surfaces for the under jaw, very large laminm 

 external on the alar processes, especially on the left. At the 

 left a very large foramen ovale. 



From the front the middle of the head appears high and 

 broad, the face delicate, short, and broad. The orbits rather 

 high and oval, widening somewhat as well to the inner and 

 upper, as to the outer and lower aspect, yet almost four-cor- 

 nered ; index 82*9, therefore mesokonch. Eemarkably wide 

 fissura spheno maxillaris. The nose narrow above as well 



