MANIS CRASSICAUnATA. 203 



8. Skeleton of N». 1. 



Notwithstanding Hodgson has proposed to change the 

 name of auritus into plurisquamis , if it was proved that 

 the genus Manis is not earless , the epithet auritus thusi 

 ceasing to be qjiarajeteristic , I Jii^ye retained the specific 

 title auritus, 1^. because this species has the largest ears 

 among all t)ie species of Manis hitherto known, 2P. to 

 a,ypid further confusion and 3o. because the n^me plurisr 

 qiuirfiis signifies the S3.me as mulpiscutata , a nan^e given 

 by Crray in 1843 to ap African Manis, viz: Manis tricuispis, 



|t i^ ^till qjiestipnable whether a Manis occurs in Japan. 

 Teipminck (Fauna jappnica p. 6) mentions th^t y. Siehold 

 has sent over tp o\\x Mijsejipi two pieces of the skin pf a 

 Manis from Japan. Bnt as at present these fragments 

 ^r,e fto^ tp be fpund in pur polLectiQi^, it is as yet impps- 

 sible to make out to what species they belonged. Mr. Ser- 

 rurier, director of the Leydeft Ethnographical Museum, kindly 

 informed me alb my request t^at in the ^ap^ne^e books at 

 his disposition he finds nothii^g justifyiug the conclusioi^ 

 that the Ant-eaters should be inh^,bitants of Japan , but 

 it appears that the Japanese intrp4v^ce then^ from China 

 for medical purposes. The Japj^nese relate that tlie Ant- 

 eaters catch Ants in the following way : The Manis erects 

 its scales and feigns to be dead; the Ants creep between 

 the erected scales , after which the Ai^t-eater again closes its 

 scales and enters the water; he now again erects the 

 scales, the Ants are set floating and are then swallowed 

 by the Ant-eater. 



3. Manis crassicaudata. 



1803. Manis crassicaudata Et. 6. H. Hilaire. Catalogue 



des Mammifères. p. 213. 

 1^34. Mmie indicu^ I^essp^. Suite des JVIamnijfère^, T, JV, 



p. 520. 

 1342. Manis [Phat^^es) latiemdq ^^^^^yq^\. ^. V^t. AfifwJ, 



Handl. p. 258^ 



