FASCICULI MALATENSES 
97 
Skull No. 22, Kelantan Malay . 
This skull has well-defined male characteristics, the bony ridges being 
strongly developed, the forehead comparatively low, and the contours generally 
massive. The development of the bones points to middle age, but synostosis 
of the sutures is not visible at any point upon the outer table. The third 
molar is fully formed on both sides of both jaws. 
Norma verticalis. 
The outline in this aspect is ovoid, somewhat flattened at the posterior 
extremity. The skull is conspicuously phaenozygous, and only a small pro¬ 
portion of the mandible can be seen from above. The abruptness with 
which the supraorbital ridges jut out from the base of the forehead and 
the narrowness of the latter are very marked. The post-parietal slope is 
visible from above as far down as the lambda. The side walls of the cranium 
are not so vertical as in No. 21, and the cranial vault shows a tendency to be 
roof-shaped. There are no marked local depressions on the bone. The 
occipital longitudinal arc is slightly longer than either the frontal or the 
parietal, the two latter being approximately equal. The cephalic index is 79, 
in the upper limits of mesaticephaly, 
Norma lateralis. 
The post-parietal slope commences at a point about two-thirds the 
distance from the bregma to the lambda. As far as the lambda it is not 
excessively abrupt; from this point to the inion it is vertical hut slightly arched ; 
the angle formed by the plane of the occipital squama with that of the nuchal 
plate, though very considerable, is not so wide as in No. 21. The longitu¬ 
dinal arc of the skull is flat above, the forehead is low and retreating, strongly 
marked off from the supraorbital ridges. The nasion is not much depressed ; 
the nasal bones are moderately prominent, and though the angle of the face 
is low as a whole, the degree of subnasal prognathism is slight. The 
zygomata are stout, but the mastoid, though massive and strongly grooved, 
is short. The skull rests behind on the posterior border of the foramen 
magnum, which is large (37 mm. by 33 mm.}, but the plane of the foramen 
approaching the horizontal at least as closely as in No. 21. The cranium is 
broader than it is high, the vertical index being 75*5, and the height index, 
calculated by the same formula as in the case of No. 21, is 95-7. 
Norma facialis. 
The orbits are large and rectangular ; they are.mesoseme, the index being 
85. The nasal bones are somewhat irregular in shape, and their inferior 
