In order to understand these better, one should look at not just the
volume of the period lattice, and the orders of these finite groups or
volumes of lattices, but the finite groups, lattices, and endomorphism
rings as stuctures themselves. There are refined conjectures (due to
Diamond, Flach, and others) about how these groups are related. These
involve ``fitting ideals'', representation theory (to make better
sense of the
-function), etc.