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derives from a number of localities and the amount of examined cases is low. Stature could be established only for ten individuals, owing to the fragmentary state of the skeletons. Unfortunately, the epiphyses of many female long bones had broken away, due also to the gracile state of the bones. The two females are short and middle short, averaging 147 cm, whereas the eight males average 163,5 cm, representing the data of two middle tall, three average, one middle short, and two short, individuals. Stature data are insufficient to allow any inferences on the rate of sexual dimorphism. Some words should be said of the sutura metopica, a frequently occurring feature. It can often be encountered also on the skulls of the Avar Period. In the present material.it can be found complete on two male and two female skulls, or in 1-2 cm lengths on two other male and female crania. It is a frequent phenomenon also in the material of the German cemetery of Hegykő, and, as the author /TÓTH, 1964/ expounded it, it is not a taxonomical feature but a morphological anomaly of the adult age. Ossa wormiana occurs in three skeletons. In the female skull Nr. 4866 of Rákospalota, there are nine bonelets enclosed in the lambda suture, and two in the sagittal one. There are six bonelets also in the lambda suture in the female skull Nr. 9024 of Rákoshegy, and two in Nr. 9027, also of Rákoshegy. An os incae bipartitum evolved in the skull Nr. 9026 of Rákoshegy. The phenomenon of the sutura petrosquamosa mastoidea can be found on skull Nr. 9034 of the Törökbálint road. This suture becomes ossified in the second year of age; the occurrence is more frequent in the Mongoloids than in the Europoids /SATO, 1902; MARTIN, 1928/. A typical anomaly is represented by shovel-shaped teeth. According to the observation of HRDLICKA /1920/, it occurs in a high percentage in Mongoloids and Amerindlds .The best example in our material is shown by the male skull Nr. 6288 of Rákoskeresztúr /Photograph/. Collating the morphometric data, the type-diagnosis of small groups should be handled with great precautions, and the more so as the eight localities lie rather dispersed and at relatively great distances from eaoh other. If it may be done at all, the material examined can be divided,on a primary taxonomic basis, into three parts: they belong to the Europoide Europomongoloide Mongoloidé great races, and within these to various types accordingly to the secondary taxonomic features. On the available data /Tables III-IV/, the population seems to be heterogeneous. This is clearly shown by the Intervals,the standard deviation /C/ based on the assumption of the normal dispersal, the deviation relating to Student's small series /s'/, as well as the high values of both variational coefficients. The smaller values, received for some measurements or indices, imply the distortion due to the random selection, and also involve a decrease in significance of the results received. Hence the values of the deviations, respectively the variational coefficients, should not be treated in Be, but with due regard to the number of cases, and the reliability of results should be understood always with reference to them. A characteristioal case, in Table IV, is N=l or N=2, and the variational coefficient 0,74 in the same Table, based on three data. Aside of the interpretation, described above, of the variational coefficients relating to the different measurements, one Bhould not forget that the value of the variational coefficient is significantly influenced by the fact that the latitude of variation of the several data and indices is not identical. This accounts for, e.g., the variational coefficient 17,50 of the female series, a result of the great latitude of the nasal Index, and not due purely to the heterogeneous state of the population, or to random selection.
