416 Lord Rothschild on a new Warthog. 



blance, to assign it to a position near Falcaustra, pending a 

 move satisfactory classification of the entire family. 



It is not impossible that one of the species of Kathlania 

 may be identical with Oxysoma Jepturum (Rud.), referred to 

 above as " Oxysomatium." This is a question which requires 

 careful further consideration, but since Railliet and Henry 

 (1916, b) have determined that this and the remaining species 

 of " OtVysomatium" cannot be included in the same genus as 

 the genotype, and since the name Oxysoma is preoccupied, it 

 seems that the name Kathlania, at all events, must be 

 retained. 



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Barreto, A. L. de B. 1919. " Sobre as especies brasileiras da sub- 



familia Subulurinaa Travassos, 1914." Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 



(Rio de Janeiro), xi. 1, p. 10. [With English translation bound 



at end of part.] 

 Lane, 0. 1914. "Suckered Round-worms from India and Ceylon." 



Ind. Journ. Med. Res. ii. 2, p. 655. 

 . 1915. "■Falcaustra falcata. An Investigation of Oxysoma fal- 



eatum von Liustow, 1906." lb. iii. 1, p. 109. 

 Railliet, A., and Henry, A. 1914. " Essai de Classification des 



' Heterakidae.' " IX e Congres Internat. Zool., Monaco (1913), 



p. 674. 

 . 1916, a. " Sur les Oxyuride's." Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol., Paris, 



lxxix. p. 113. 

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p. 247. 



XLV. — Preliminary Description of a new Warthog. 

 By Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., Ph.D. 



Phacochosrus barkeri, sp. n. 



There is only the front portion of the skull preserved of this 

 animal, but it has such striking characters that it ought to 

 receive a name. 



(J adult. Nasals very broad, quite flat and depressed, 

 whereas in the known species they are strongly convex. 

 Level of top of nasals below that of top of socket of canine 

 tusks, whereas in other species it is considerably above. 



Canine tusks comparatively short, but enormously thick 

 and strongly bent forward. 



Hab. S.W. of Balir el Ghazal. 



Major Barker, who brought the specimen home, said the 

 animal was quite as large as Hylochcerus, but with very small 

 feet. 



