The structure of eigenstates for the ensembles of standard and periodi
c Band Random Matrices (BRM) is analysed. The main attention is drawn
to the scaling properties of the inverse participation ratio and other
measures of localization length. Numerical data are compared with ana
lytical results recently derived for standard BRMs of very large band
size. The data for periodic and standard BRM allow us to exhibit the i
nfluence of boundary conditions on the properties of eigenstates.