522 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
No. 482. MANIS JAVANICA. 
The Javan Ant-eater. 
HapitTat.—Burmah and the Malayan peninsula ; also Tipperah. 
DEscrIPTION.—To be distinguished from the two preceding species 
by the greater number of longitudinal rows of scales, JZ. pentadactyla 
having from eleven to thirteen, JZ. aurifa from fifteen to eighteen, 
and AZ, Javanica nineteen. ‘Taking the number of scales in the longi- 
tudinal mesial line from the nose to the tip of the tail in AZ. pentadactyla. 
it is forty-two; in aurita forty-eight to fifty-six; in avanica as high as 
sixty-four ; on the tail the scales are : WZ. pentadactyla, fourteen ; AZ. aurita 
sixteen to twenty ; JZ, Javanica thirty. 
I am indebted to Dr. Anderson’s ‘Zoological and Anatomical 
Researches’ for the following summary of characteristics :— 
“ M. pentadactyla by its less heavy body ; by its tail, which is broad at 
the base, tapering gradually to a point, and equalling the length of the 
head and trunk ; by its large light olive-brown scales, of which there 
are only from eleven to thirteen longitudinal rows on the trunk, and a 
mesial line of fourteen on the tail; and by its powerful fore-claws, the 
centre one of which is somewhat more than twice as long as the 
corresponding claw of the hinder extremity. JZ. aurita is distinguished 
from JZ, pentadactyla by its less heavy body; by its rather shorter tail, 
which has less basal breath than JZ. pentadactyla ; by its smaller and 
darker brown, almost black scales in the adult, which are more 
numerous, there being from fifteen to eighteen longitudinal rows on the 
trunk, seventeen rows being the normal number, and sixteen to twenty 
caudal plates in the mesial line; and by its strong fore-claws, the 
middle one of which is not quite twice as long as the corresponding 
claw on the hind foot. 
M. Javanica is recognised by its body being longer and more 
attenuated than in the two foregoing species ; by its narrower and more 
tapered tail; by its longer and more foliaceous or darker olive-brown 
scales, of which there are nineteen longitudinal rows on the trunk, and 
as many as thirty along the mesial line of the tail ; and by the claws of 
the fore-feet being not nearly so long as in JZ. /aurita, and being but 
little in excess of the claws of the hind-feet. 
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