88 HYSTRIX MÜLLERI. 



H. fasciculata according to Buffon is moreover white on 

 the belly. 



In the Mémoires du Muséum d'histoire naturelle ^), Fr. 

 Cuvier states, "Ie genre Acanthion contient: l'acanthion 

 de Java , Acanthion javanicum , qui ne nous est connu que 

 par sa tête osseuse, dont nous avons déja décrit les traits 

 principaux (pi. 1 , figs. 3 et 4) ; l'origine de cette espèce 

 étant bien établie , on pourra aisément suppleer a ce qui 

 nous manque pour Ie faire connaitre complétement." As 

 there are no differences at all between the skulls of the 

 common Javan Porcupine and the figures given by Fr. 

 Cuvier and as there is hitherto found in Java but one 

 single species of Porcupine , Wagner ^) has made a "double 

 emploi" in giving a new specific name — H. breviftpinosa — 

 to the common Javan Porcupine , H. javanica , Cuvier. 



J. van der Hoeven ^) gives a list of the Hystrices in 

 the Leyden Museum and among them H. torquata , a 

 synonym of H. javanica , and H. ecaudata , probably a 

 specimen without tail : the latter however I have not found 

 in our collection. 



Marshall *) states that there are in the Leyden Museum 

 three stuff'ed examples of H. javanica , two skeletons and 

 three skulls ; of H. longicauda (under the MS. name H. 

 Mülleri, Temminck) one full-grown example from Sumatra, 

 a half grown individual , marked H. javanica , without 

 locality and a very young one in its first year from Borneo. 

 I never saw this last specimen in our Museum. 



According to Sclater '") the Acanthochoerus Grotei , 

 described and figured by Gray ^) is the same as the Por- 



1) Tome IX, 1822, p. 431. 



2) Schreber, SaugetMere , Suppl. Band IV, 1844, p. 20 



3) Tijdschrift van J. v. d. Hoeven, 1836, t. Ill, p. llO. 



4) P. Z. S. L. 1871, p 235, note. 



5) P. Z. S. L. 1871, p. 234. 



61 P. Z. S. L. 1866, p. 306, pi. XXI. 



Notes from the Leyden Mtiseixm. 



