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



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preceding ones ; its capacity amounts to 1,250 cub. cm., 

 therefore it is mesohypsicephalic (ratio of length and 

 breadth 76-7, of length and height 77*3): therefore in its form 

 it is wholly irregular. 



Looked at from above it appears cut off short behind and 

 somewhat unsymmetrical ; broadly arched in the region of 

 the parietal eminences, towards the front lessened, but still 

 more broad. It is scarcely phsenozygomatic. The sutures 

 are open, but the lower parts of the coronal and the posterior 

 division of the sagittal are very simple. The left foramen 

 parietale is obliterated up to an almost invisible point, the 

 right distinct, but moved very near to the suture. The lamb- 

 doidal has deep indentations with wormian bone near the 

 angle, and in the vicinity of the side fontanelle. Parietal and 

 frontal emissaries broadly prominent. 



At a side view the skull has a wholly female form ; the 

 low brow passes with a sudden turning into the long slight 

 parietal curve, from which, posteriorly, there is a very sudden 

 fall, with slight arching of the squama superior in. Yet the 

 skull appears high. In the right temporal region is a very 

 large epiptericum, 25 mm. long, 10 mm. high, obliquely quad- 

 rangular. This completely interrupts the union of the 

 ala with the angulus parietalis, at the expense of which it is 

 principally developed. The ring is depressed, and in its 

 middle part shows stenokrotaphy. To compensate, the tem- 

 poral part of the frontal bone is arched forward, bomb- 

 shaped on the left. The conditions are almost normal ; but 

 here also is an arching of the orbital portion of the frontal 

 bone, and the ala is set more deeply into the latter : — 



Right. Left. 

 Breadth of the ala above ... 13 mm. ... 20 mm. 

 Do. in the middle 10 mm ... 12 mm. 



At a back view the skull is very high and broad, the sides 

 straight, slightly converging below, the roof slightly rounded. 

 The back part of the head high, the squama superioris arched 

 out, almost like a ball. No protuberance, lince semicirculares 

 scarcely visible. Cerebellar archings well developed over 



