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palatal index is no less tlian 140*7, The pakte is therefore mai-kedly of 

 tiie paraTwIic form. In this skut! it is also very high. The niaxillte are 

 narrowest in the dolichocephalic female. In all cases the posterior etige 

 of the vomer slopes considerably forwards afi well as doMmwards. 



The charaeters of the mandible can be only imperfectly studied, it 

 being lost in eomo instances and much atrophied in others. The chief 

 character peeras to he the absence of prominence of the cJiin : the sym- 

 phesial angle is consef|uently high, approaching a right angle. 



Dentition is normal in all tlie skulls except the male No. 4, in which the 

 last upfter niolarA, or wisdom teeth, are absent from non-development. 

 The sknll is known, however, to Mr. Forbes to liave Ije longed to a man be- 

 yond middle age. The last molars have not Ijeen fnlly acquired i n the skull 

 of the youth No. 11. In size the teeth are large but not abnormally so, 

 and are stained bltick in two of the male eknlls, Nos, 4 and 10, and in the 

 female skulls Nos, 7 and 1. lu the male No. 10, the upper incisors and 



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can ints have been filed away on the anterior surface, and etainecl black, 

 making them more spade-like. This custom of deforming the teeth, and 

 staining them, ia practised very commonly in Java and Birma, and else- 

 where. The incisors and cAuines being absent in the other male skulls^ it 

 ia impossibJe to say whether these teeth wei« deformed in them also. 

 In the females there is a trace of a similar defonimtion in No, 2, but the 

 filed teeth are not stained artificially. Grinding down the anterior upper 

 and lower teeth horizontally, and staining them, seems to have been 

 practised in Kos. 1 and 9. In the other skulls the teeth have been lost, 



Relation of the inhabitants of Timor-kmt fa those o/mljacent countries, — 

 That the skulls just describetl are not those of a pure race is very evident. 

 Two very distinct types can be made out, namely, the brachycephalic and 

 the dolichocephalic, the former greatly predominating in number. Both 

 from the information Mr. Forbes has given us as to tlieir appearance, and 

 from the skulls themselvcJi, there is no difficulty in recognising a strong 



