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Co7igenital Anomalies in a Native African Race 
opaque spot on the posterior surface of the lens. The eye is convergent and 
vision poor; he counts fingers at one yard. The left eye is normal. 
Dermoid Cysts oftlie Face have been seen in the situations shewn in the sketch 
(Fig. 5). One of these was excised and found to contain the usual pultaceous 
Fig. 3. Dermoid cysts of face. 
mass mixed with hairs. These hairs examined microscopically were found to be 
spindle shaped, tapering at each end, brown diffuse and granular pigment was 
present in them. 
A relic of the cleft between the median and upper external processes of the 
foetal face was on one occasion seen as a small pit at the lower extremity of and 
just external to an epicanthal fold. 
(12) Congenital Naevus. Only two cases of naevus have been seen. One a 
woman presented a small naevus just to the left of the middle line on the forehead 
at the margin of the hairy scalp, 1 cm. in diameter. The second was a man with a 
similar growth 1 cm. in diameter on the lower lip just to the right of the middle 
line (Ching'waya of Zomba). 
(13) Ear. The general conformation of the ear varies a good deal ; some of the 
types are shewn in the sketches (Fig. G) but all these must be considered as coming 
Fig. fi. 
within the limits of normal variation. In one case a kind of Accessory Lobule was 
noted ; the subject was an albino. A number of persons with Accessory Auricles 
