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



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arched, protuberance small. Fades muscularis large, and, on 

 the whole, arched ; cerebellar archings, instead, slight. 



Lower view : short, rounded behind ; foramen magnum 

 short, 34 mm. long, 29 broad, index 85*2 ; very strong articu- 

 lating surfaces, placed rather far to the front and near 

 together. Mastoid processes large ; left divided, but has 

 a slighter fissure. Deep and large glenoid cavities. 



Front view: high, arching pretty regularly above; well- 

 developed nasal eminence, with somewhat porotic surface ; in 

 the middle of it a finely indented remnant of the frontal suture, 

 at either side of it an arching forward, owing to the frontal 

 sinuses. High, somewhat oblique orbits, with rounded roof ; 

 index 86'4, hypsikonch. Anterior part of the spheno-maxil- 

 lary fissure broad. Nose narrow above, bridge almost sharp, 

 somewhat deeply incurvated and arched ; aperture broad 

 and high ; index platyrrhine. Spina nasalis anterior large. 

 Fossa canina moderately depressed. Foramen infra orbitale 

 flattened. Cheek bones projecting greatly, with rather 

 short posterior superior fissure. Alveolar process short, 

 14 mm., still strongly prognathous, because of the large 

 alveoli. Palate very broad ; index 87*1, brachystaphyline. 

 Alveolar ridge slightly converging posteriorly, yet somewhat 

 in the shape of a horse-shoe. Teeth on the whole very large. 

 The anterior part of the palate surface forms an oblique 

 descent. Slight spina nasalis posterior; large (14 mm. 

 long) palatine plate. 



The single skulls present certain peculiarities which impair 

 their typical value. This is especially true of the first, 

 which shows a considerable degree of plagiocephaly, with 

 great irregularities in the lambdoidal suture. In all 

 probability the obliquity has operated as a pressure, which 

 has affected one side of the occiput, but it is difficult to say 

 whether this pressure has been an artificial one, and if it 

 came first after birth. The extent of the aberration in the con- 

 figuration of the lambdoidal suture appears to indicate rather 

 a disturbance during foetal life. We found something 



