THICK-SKINNED BEASTS. 69 



Section 2. EUEODONTINA. 



Premolars deciduous, their places being filled up by the develop- 

 ment of the molars ; molars formed of laminge, many rooted. 



Family 1. PHACOCHGEEIDiE, Grai/, Cat. Carniv. dc. p. 352. 

 Aim. d Mag. Nat. Hist. 1873. 



1. PHACOCHCEEUS, Gray, Cat. Carniv. dc. p. 352. 



Zygomatic arch very broad, with only a very shght broad concavity 

 in front of the orbit. Lower canines triangular. The upper canines 

 bent upwards and outwards, very large and thick, with a ridge across 

 their sheath as in the SuidcE, but in both sexes. Lower canines flat 

 on the outer sides and keeled in front. The sheath of the upper 

 canines with a very obscure ridge across the middle in skulls said to 

 belong to the two sexes, which were Hving in the Zoological Gardens. 

 The sheath and upper canines of the female are rather smaller and 

 more slender than those of the male. The upper and lower canines 

 of the skulls with the milk-teeth even in the youngest, where the 

 grinders are scarcely developed, have the canines well developed, 

 slender and spreading out, the upper ones bent downwards and slightly 

 reflexed at the end, the lower ones being recurved and most spread. 

 The canines of the permanent series appear by the figure of the young 

 female given by Mr. Sclater to be at first small, conical, but in this 

 animal still in the Zoological Gardens (April, 1873) they have now 

 become large and elongate, very similar to those of the males, but not 

 quite so large as in that sex. Indeed the adult skulls received fi-om 

 the Zoological Gardens and fi'om Mr. Sundevall, with the sex marked, 

 show that the two sexes, unlike the pigs, have well-developed large 

 canines. Both the skulls of the young animals above referred to, with 

 their milk-teeth, have two well-developed cutting-teeth in the upper, 

 and six in the lower jaw. 



1. Phacochcerus ^thiopicus. Gray, Cat. Carniv. dc. p. 353. 

 Phacochcerus ? Gray, Ann. d Mag. Nat. Hist. 1870, vi. p. 190. 



19 a. Animal, stuffed. 

 Phacochcerus ^Ehani, Bu;ppell, Zool. Atlas, t. xxv., xxvi.- 

 Abyssinia. Eiippell. 



70 c. Animal, stuffed ; adult male. 



S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



74 h. Animal, stuffed ; young. 



S. Africa. 



765 6. Animal, stuffed ; adult female. 



765 6. Skeleton of " 6." Cutting-teeth two above, fallen out. 



P. iEhani, Gerrard, Cat. Bones, p. 280. 



Africa. 62, 1, 22, 4. 



765 a. Skin, unstuffed; adult female. 

 765 a. SkuUof"a."^ 



" Phacochcerus ^Hani, 2 ," Sundevall. 



Caffraria. Sundevall. 46, 6, 2, 74 & 75. 



