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but its deficiency is at least partly due to the scantiness of 

 the material and with all its faults it may correspond to the 

 present state of our icnowledge about the taxonomy of these 

 interesting animals. 



The following forms may be recognized as more or less 

 completely distinct: 



1. Potamochoerus forcus (Lin.) — Liberia to the interiör 



of Cameroons. 



2. » » pictus (Gray) — Coast-district of 



Cameroons from the Cameroon- 

 mountain and southward. 



3. » » alhifrons (Du Chaillu) — Nor- 



thern part of western French Congo 

 (Cape Lopez, Cape S:ta Catherina 

 head of Fernand- Vaz. River, Ogowe) 

 and southward. 



4. » » uhangensis n. subsp. — Ubangui- 



district. 



5. » choeropotamus (Desmoulins) — Cape — Natal. 



6. » » 7nascJiona n. subsp. — Portug. 



E. Afr., Maschona land, N. E. 

 Khodesia. 



7. » » jolinstoni Major. — The 



country sloping towards the 

 western side of Lake Nyasa. 



8. » » mjasce Major — The country 



at Lake Mweru and south- 

 ward to Chambeze River. 



9. » » doemonis Maj OR — Kilimanjaro. 



10. » larvatus (F. Cuvier) — Western dry re- 



gion of Madagascar. 



11. » » hova n. subsp. — Eastern humid 



forest region of Madagascar. 



12. » kassarna (Heugltn) — Abyssinia. 



13. » intermedius n. sp. — Uganda (Ruwenzori). 



Tryckt den 28 november 1910. 

 Uppsala 1910. Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-A.-B. 



