340 STTID^. 



2)errey, Voy. Coquille, Zool. i. t. 8 ; Oray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 18o • 



P. Z. S. 1858, p. 107. 

 I'orcula papuensis, Fitz. Sitz. Akacl d. Wiss, 1864, p. 23 ; Gray, 



P. Z. & 1868, p. 33. 

 Papuan Hog, Lotc, Breeds of Domestic Anim. ii. p. 1. 

 Sus scrofa, var., Giebel, Sauyeth. p. 220. 



Hah. New Guiwea. Called ' Ben ' or ' Bene.' 



Lesson and Garnot described the skull as having only five grinders 

 on each side of each jaw ; hut this animal was probably not full- 

 grown. Canines not longer than the other teeth. Tail very short. 



** Back and nape withoid any mane. 



2. Porcula salviania. B.M. 



Fur very bristly above, nakedish beneath ; black-brown, grey- or 

 yellowish-washed. Ears naked. Back without any crest. 



Porcula salviania, Hodyson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. xvi. pp. 423, 593, 

 1. 12, 13, xvii. p. 480, t. 27 ; HorsfiM, P. Z. S. 1853, p. 191 ; Fitz. 

 Sitz. Akud. d. Wissen. 1864, p. 25 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 33. 



Porcula salvania, Gerrard, Cat. Bones, p. 278 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 185(), 

 p. 400, Mamm. pi. 37. 



Sus scrofa, var., Giebel, Sauyeth. p. 226. 



Pygmy Hog of the Saul Forests, Iludyson. 



Hah. Nepal ; Sikkim ; Saul Forests in Tarai. 



Skull (1077 rt) from the Saul Forests. Presented to the Museum 

 by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. It is that of an animal developing the last 

 molar. In form the skull is very hke that of i^us, but shorter ; the 

 forehead is convex ; the nose tapers in front of the orbit, is rather 

 swollen and wide over the deejily concave cheeks ; the concavity is 

 deepest in the middle of the cheeks, and it is only separated from 

 the orbit by the narrow edge of the orbit. The canines are small, 

 the upper ones not rcciu'ved. 



3. POTAMOCHffiRUS. 



Face elongate, with a bony protuberance on each side, halfway 

 between the nose and eyes. Ears elongate, suddenly tapering, and 

 ending in a pencil of hairs. Tail thick, elongate, high up on the 

 rump. Skull elongate ; brain-ease swollen ; nose nearly of the same 

 width the whole length, rounded above, with a rather thickened 

 upper margin, and a deep concavity on the cheeks extending nearly 

 to the front of the orbit, and partly over and nearly covering the 

 malar process that supports the zygomatic arch. 



Male swollen and often warty on the sides in front ; sheath of the 

 canine with a large broad process on the upper part of its base. 



Female, side of the nose simple, and the sheath of the canine 

 with a well-marked ridge across the upper part of its base. 



Teats four. Young four at a birth, with longitudinal stripes. 



Koiropotamus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 185. 

 t'hoivojwtamus, Gray, Ann. 8,- Mag. N. H. 1852. 



