Abstract. The expectation of the geometrical catamorphic representation of the quark-lepton families is that the parameters of the CKM matrix, in the Wolfenstein substitution, have the values A=p= 1 and 5~_z~/3. No conflict is found with the geometrical expectation which, furthermore, requires 107 < m~ < 165 GeV/c 2, consistent with 14/,, Z phenomenology. PACS: 11.30.-j; 12.30.-s; 14.80.DqThe quark-lepton families resemble one another very closely and are intimately inter-related as is shown by the great range of electro-weak phenomenology. It is clear that they are transformed, the one into the other, by some systematic operation affecting some distinguishing characteristic. However, this systematic operation only works twice because the families are limited, as is shown by the cosmo-genesis of the light elements and by the width of the Z ~ to three in number: [u,d; e, re], [c, s; #, v~] and [t, b; z, vJ. There is evidently something intrinsic to the nature of the families that forbids the third application of the systematic transforming operation and so prevents the generation of a fourth family.So far as we now know, the weak linkages among the quarks are described by the familiar Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix =/--St