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difference of sex, which the state of the specimens does not allow me 

 to determine. 



The separate skull (fig. 42) is very ventricose, thin, light, and 

 showing the sutui'es. 



The skuU belonging to the complete skeleton (fig. 43) is smaller, 

 narrower, more conical, solid, and with the suture much less dis- 

 tinctly visible. 



A foetus of this species, 10 inches long, was noticed by Mr. 

 Thompson under the name of M. tetradactyhis (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1834, p. 28). 



2. PHOLIDOTUS. 



The fore and hind feet entirely covered with keeled scales ; the 

 internal claw of the fore foot nearly equal to the outer one, and not 

 retracted behind. Scales of the body broad, short. Tail moderate, 

 tapering at the end ; the central series of caudal scales continued to 

 the tip. Hab. India and Asiatic Islands. 



Pholidotus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 365. 



Manis /3. Pholidotus, SundevaU, I. c. p. 253 ; Rapp, Edent. t. 6. f. 1, 2. 



* Scales dark brown, in seventeen longitudinal series ; the three or four 

 series on each side sliorter, keeled. Tail as long as body and head. 

 Face of skull elongate, nearly as long as hrain-case. 



1. Pholidotus javanus. B.M. 



Dark brown ; taU as long as body and head ; scales of the sides 

 and of the hind feet acutely keeled, the front and hinder claws 

 nearly equal-sized. Head and body 15, tail 15 inches. 



Manis pentadactyla, Raffles, Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 249. 



Manis javanica (partly), Fischer, Syn. p. 400 (not oi SundevaU). 



Manis aspera, SundevaU, I. c. p. 253 ; Rapp, Edent. t. 2 a (good), t. 6. 



f. 1, 2 (skull); Besm. Mamm. p. 377; Gerrard, Cat. Bodies B. M. 



p. 285. 

 Phohdotus javanus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 366. 



Hab. Sumatra {Baffles). Male nnd female (B.M.). 



Teats two, pectoral ; penis pendent. 



Manis aspera is described from a single specimen in the Paris 

 Museum, sent from Sumatra. It is evidently the same as that which 

 Eaffles described and figured under the name M. javanica, and which 

 has been so named in the English museums. 



The M. javanica of Dr. SundevaU, which he described as having 

 fulvescent scales, is the same as his M. Dalmanni and the M. aurita 

 of Hodgson, which is common in India and has been generally con- 

 founded with the larger-scaled M. pentadactyla or M. laticamla. 



Desmarest describes, under the name of M. javanica, the Java 

 animal with keeled scales on the legs, and refers to Raffles. 



Manis guy.. Focillon, Rev. Zool. 1850, t. 10 : Rapp, Edent. 17. 



