50 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
dorsal stripe. The females and immature animals in the herd seen 
by Heller were said to be quite reddish on the sides, strikingly 
different in coloration from the old males. 
Genus HYLOCH@RUS Thomas. 
1904. Hylochoerus THomas, Nature, vol. 70, p. 577. October 13. (H. meinertz- 
hageni. ) 
Two specimens of the forest hog were secured by the Smithsonian 
African Expedition in 1909. 
HYLOCHGRUS MEINERTZHAGENI Thomas. 
1904. Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Tuomas, Nature, vol. 70, p. 577. October 13. 
(Nandi Forest, 7,000 feet altitude, British East Africa; type in British 
Museum. ) 
1910. Hylocherus meinerizhagent RoosrEve.t, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., 
p. 475; London ed., p. 486. 
1914. Hylocherus minertzhageni [sic] RoosEvELT AND HeEtueErR, Life-Hist. African 
Game Anim., vol. 1, p. 278. 
Specimens.—Two, from localities as follows: 
British East Arrica: Mau Forest near Enjoro, 1 (Roosevelt); 
Mau Forest near Lake Naivasha, 1 (Heller). 
The Enjoro specimen was presented to Colonel Roosevelt by Lord 
Delamere, and the Naivasha specimen was purchased by Heller from a 
farmer, while the Smithsonian African Expedition was in the region of 
their capture. Both have skins and skulls and the Naivasha speci- 
men is accompanied by the complete skeleton. The skull of the 
Enjoro specimen, an adult male, méasures as follows: Greatest length, 
382; condylobasal length, 382; zygomatic breadth, 225; interorbital 
breadth, 95; width across postorbital processes, 124; width of lamb- 
doidal crest, 124; palatal length, 275; length of upper tooth row, 
102; length of m’, 40. 
A forest hog (Hylocherus schulzi) from the mountains west of 
Kilimanjaro, in German East Africa (‘‘Winterhochlande, dem 
Mutjekgebirge und dem Meru’’), has recently been described by 
Zukowsky." . 
Genus PHACOCHERUS Cuvier. 
1817. Phaco cherus Cuvier, Régne Anim., vol. 1, p. 236. (P. xthiopicus.) 
1817. Eureodon Fiscuer, Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 5, p. 373. (P. xthi- 
opicus.) 
1841. Dinochoerus GLocER, Handb. Naturgesch., vol. 1, p. 131. (P. xthiopicus.) 
1915. Eureodon Lyon, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 28, p. 141. June 29. 
1915. Phacocherus THomas, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 28, p. 181. Novem- 
ber 29. 
The common East African wart-hog has a wide distribution from 
Abyssinia southward into German East Africa, and is commonly 
1 Archiv fiir Nat., 87 Jahrg., Abt. A, 1 Heft, p.181. July, 1921. 
