202 MANrS AURITA. 



2. Ma nis aurita. 



1836. Manis auritm Hodgson. J. A. S. B. p. 234. 



1842. Manis (Pholidotus) dalmanni Sundevall. K. Vet. 

 Acad. Handl. p. 256. T. IV. fig. 10 (claw). 



187^. Pholidotus assamemis Fitzinger. Sitzb. d. K. Ac. 

 Wissensch. Wien. p. 49. 



Outside of fore and hind fept covered with scales, En(J 

 of tail naked on its Ipwer surface. Claws of hind feet 

 much ^mailer tjian those of fore feet. Body with 17 lon- 

 gitudiual series of scales. In young specimens the scales 

 of the sides of the body and those of the hind feet strongly 

 keeled. At that age all the scales present a peculiar pur- 

 plish brown shining color*), in adult specimens they are 

 of a blockish brown color. 



5ab. Cl^^pa; Formosa ami Hajpan (Swinhoe); Nepaul 

 (Hodgsou); Upper Assapa (bUc Clellaud); Western Yunnan 

 (Auderson). 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum: 



1. Female. Chiu^, Amoy. G. Sphlegel. 10 febr. 1862. 

 Long: head ape} body 30 c. m., tail 18 c. m. Tail with 

 17 scales. — 2. Male (in spirits). China, Anapy. G. Schle- 

 gel. 20 febr. J862. Lpng: head aud body 31 c. m., tail 

 19.5 c, m. Tail with 19 scales. — 3. Male (in spirits). 

 China , Amoy. G. Schlegel. 20 febr. 1862. Long, head and 

 body 25 p. m., tail 15 c. m. Tail with 17 scales. — 4. 

 Male (in spirits). Amoy. G. Schlegel. 20 febr. 1862. Long: 

 he^d and body 26 c. m., tail 17 cm. Tail with 16 scales. 

 — 5. 4^dult. Nepaul. Hodgson. Long: head and body 60 c. m., 

 tail 40 c. m. Tail with 17 scales — 6. Nearly fullgrown 

 individual. Nepaul. Hodgson. Long: head and body 56 c. m., 

 tftil 31 c, ui. Tail with 17 scalps. — 7. Nearly fullgrown 

 individual. Nepaul. Hodgson. Long : he^^d and body 53 c. m., 

 t^il 29 c, m, T^ril vith 16 scales. 



1) Swinhoe very appropriately compared the scales of the young individuals 

 with the side-pieces of an acorn-barnacle (Balanus). 



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