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intertrochanteric line is in no way remarkable, and the popliteal region is 
almost flat in the line of its main axis. The tibia is platycnemic, the index 
and measurements being : — 
Platycnemic Index 68 o 
Transverse Diameter 1 6 mm. 
Anterior-Posterior Diameter 23*5 mm. 
The upper third of the shaft is markedly oblique, and the head is retroverted. 
The external condylar surface is convex, and the internal condylar surface 
concave. Extra astragalar and fibular facets are well developed, and the 
internal malleolus is very long. The tibio-femoral index of No. 7 is 81 -8. 
The humero-femoral index of No. 4 is 68 - 8, and of No. 7, 71. The 
intermembral index cannot be taken exactly, as neither of the specimens 
includes a complete set of limb-bones from one side ; but it was probably 
about 69*4 in No. 7. 
Pelves. In the absence of the sacra it is possible to say very little about 
the pelves, except that they are small ; that the translucent area in the alae is 
inconsiderable, and that the alae themselves have been moderately vertical. 
Mai Dardt ; Batang Padang , South Perak (Plate XVII). 
This tribe is represented by a fairly complete skeleton and two skulls, 
one of which lacks the facial region. The specimens were obtained, under our 
own supervision, from Sakai clearings in the Batang Padang district, Nos. 8 
and 9 coming from the neighbourhood of Tapah, and No. 10 from Paku near 
Bidor. 
A point of some interest is the fact that wherever the brass ornaments 
buried with the bodies had come in contact with them, a compound of copper 
had been formed which had preserved the flesh beneath it, more or less perfectly, 
though the bones were elsewhere dry, if they had not disappeared, as was 
occasionally the case. 
Skulls. One of the skulls (No. 8) appears to be that of a male rather past 
middle life, while the other two specimens exhibit female characters, and were 
proved to have been the skulls of women by the ornaments buried with them 
( antea , p. 45). 
Norma verticalis. The outline in No. 8 is a narrow oval ; in No. 9 a 
broad and regular ovoid ; No. 10 is, to some extent, intermediate, but the 
central part of the parietal region is very protuberant. The mean cephalic 
index is 73*8, but the individual indices show great variation, being 69*4* 
