208 MANIS TRICUSPIS. 



very small , they have been overlooked by Brisson , Schre- 

 ber, Linuaeus and others, although Erxleben iu 1777 

 wrote, describing this species (his Mam's macrowra) :» ungues 

 »5 — 5 palmarum pollicis minimo vix apparente, inde fó- 

 »tradactyla male dicta auctoribus." Buffon has confounded 

 Manis longicaicdata and Alanis tricuspis. He regarded a spe- 

 cimen of the latter , which was characterized by three-poin- 

 ted scales , as a young individual of his Phatagin. Desma- 

 rest baptized this species in 1820 in calling it Manis afri- 

 cana, a name also adopted by Lesson iu 1834 and given 

 in 1865 by Gray to the much shorter tailed Manis gigan- 

 tea Illiger, 



7. Manis tricuspis. 



1820. Manis tricuspis Rafinesque. Ann. Gen. d. Sc. Phys. 



de Bruxelles. p. 214. 

 1843. Manis multiscutata Gray. P. Z. S. L. p. 22. 



1849. Manis multiscutata Fraser. Zoologia typica. With a 

 colored plate. 



1850. Manis tridentata Focillon. Revue et Magasin de Zoö- 

 logie, p. 472. Plate 11. 



1872. TriglochinophoUs tricuspis Fitzinger. Sitzb. d. k. Ak. 

 d. Wisschensch. Wien. p. 19 ; Trigl. multiscutata 

 Fitz. 1. c. p. 23 ; Trig, tridentata Fitz. 1. c. p. 25. 



1873. Phatagin tricuspis Gray. Handlist, p 7. 



Scales small , tricuspidate and elongate. Body covered with 

 21 longitudinal rows of scales. All the naked parts closely 

 covered with rather long white colored hairs. Tail with 

 34 till 37 marginal scales; the interrupted middle row of 

 the tail consists of from 30 to 33 scales , followed by two 

 rows each of from 3 to 6 scales. 



Hab. Liberia (Büttikofer and Sala) ; Gold-coast (Pel , 

 Nagtglas); Sierra Leone (Thompson); Fernando-Po (Fraser); 

 Bembé (Monteiro); Ashango-land (Du Ohaillu) ; Mozambique ? 

 (Guy, Peters). 



Mounted specimens in the Leyden Museum: 



Notes from the Leyden Aluseum, "Vol. IV. 



