HTEMOSCHID^. 99 



the specimen I named MoscJuis fuhlventer ; but the two specimens 

 from Camboja and the one from Java have also the belly varied with 

 fulvous. 



4. Tragulus pygmaeus. 



Fur dark yeUow-brown with, numerous black hairs ; neck and 

 throat-streaks more golden, broad, confluent, and forming a central 

 streak above, with a cross streak at their upper end. Nape-streak 

 black. Belly white, more or less yellow-varied. 



TraguUis pygmfeus, Gray, Cat. Umjul. B. M. p. 250. 

 Tragulus kanchil. 



Hah. Java ; India. 



This may be only a variety of the preceding ; but it is to be distin- 

 guished by its brighter and darker colours, and by its wider neck- 

 streaks. 



Fam. 24. HYEMOSCHIDtE. 



Horns none. Canines often elongate. Back of the tarsus bald, 

 callous. The median metacarpal bones separate in all ages ; the 

 metatarsal bones at first distinct, becoming united into a single bone. 

 Intermaxillaries short, not reaching the nasals. The placenta not 

 divided into cotyledons, but diffused as in the Hog and Horse. 

 The stomach is tripartite. Africa. 



1. HYEMOSCHUS. 



Lower lip and chin rather nakedish, with scattered hairs. The 

 hinder edge of the metatarsus hairy, with a large callosity on the 

 outer side near the heel. Two lateral toes elongate, with large 

 tapering hoofs. The intermaxillary is very short, oblong, trun- 

 cated behind, and placed on the front end of the truncated maxilla. 

 The fur spotted like Meminna. (Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M n 247 

 t. 25. f. 2, skuU.) • 1 » 



Dicroceros, Lartet J^ Gervais. Fossil. 



1. Hyemoschus aquaticus. (The Boomorah.) B.M. 



Hyemoschus aquaticus, Grai/, Cat. Ungul. B. M. n "^48 t 2o i 2 

 (skuU) ; A. M.-Edwar(h, Ann. Sci. Nat. 18G4, ii. p. l^a'tab. 3." f 3 

 (animal), tab. 11 (skeleton). 



Hah. Western Africa : Sierra Leone and Gambia ; Senegal. 



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