178 SUS-STUDIES. 



Sus Milleri is an inhabitant of Java. 



«Probably Sus vittatus inhabits all the islands westward 

 Sumatra" wrote von Jlosenberg (der Malayische Archipel) 

 and also Banka (after S. Muller, Verhandelingen). Max 

 Weber (Zoologische Ergebnisse, 1890) wrote concerning 

 Flores as locality for this species: »in Flores is also a 

 "species of wild hog. 1 got only the right mandibular 

 "tusk of a male, that agrees most with the tusk of Sus 

 '•^vittatus not at all with that of S. celebensis." Afterwards 

 Prof. Weber procured four skulls from Flores, Maumeri; 

 these skulls are now before me; they have been labeled 

 Sus vittatus Muller var: — Prof. Weber (Zool. Ergebnisse, 

 Vol. Ill, p. 267) expressed himself as follows: »ich erhielt 

 "durch die Gfite des Herrn Calon vier Schadel erwachseuer 

 "Thiere von denen aber auch der alteste, zweifellos mannliche, 

 "kleinere Hauer hat als der isolirt vorliegende ursprüng- 

 "liche. Diese vier, unzweifelhaft von Flores stammenden 

 "Schadel geboren nun einer kleinen Rasse an, die ofifenbar 

 ''aSm5 vittatus unterzuordnen ist. Ob sie ganz rein gebliebeu 

 "ist von Vermischung mit domesticirten Schweiuen, wage 

 "ich nicht zu entscheideu." Three of these skulls apparently 

 once belonged to females, the fourth one evidently is the 

 skull of a very adult male. That Prof. Weber labeled them 

 vittatus var : was quite right, indeed they make the im- 

 pression as belonging to a miniature edition of vittatus. 

 A closer inspection however much modifies that determi- 

 nation, at all events a previous one. The skulls differ so 

 widely from all other hitherto described ones, that although 

 I hate it to describe as a distinct species an animal of 

 which only the skull is known, I think the separation of 

 the mentioned skulls under a distinct specific title may be 

 called well founded. So I propose to call it 



6. Sus Jloresianus n. sp. 

 External characters unknown. 



Notes from the Leyden IXXuseum, Vol. XXVI. 



