178 African Zoology. 



Sus Larvatus, F. Cuvier. Bristles long, particularly upon 

 the upper parts of the neck and back. Head yellow-white, 

 the forehead more or less pencilled with black ; neck and 

 body black, variegated with white, from most of the bristle^ 

 being of that colour towards the points ; extremities almost en- 

 tirely black ; eyes dark brown ; canines very strong, those of 

 upper-jaw projecting horizontally beyond the lips, those of 

 lower jaw upwards ; between upper canines and eyes a distinct 

 tuberculous elevation covered with hair ; ears short and thinly 

 covered, both without and within, with coarse black hair, which 

 is longest at their tips ; tail thinly covered with black bristles. 

 Length from nose to root of tail between four and five feet ; 

 length of tail about one foot. 



Inhabits South Africa and Madagascar. 



Sus Afiicanus, Schreb. Saiigfh. Tab. 327. Thunb. in Mem. 

 de i' Acad, de Petersb. iii. p. 320. Daniel, African Scenery, 

 Tab. 22. Bosch Vark of the Cape Colonists. 



Obs. Scarcely any two specimens of this species exhibit the same 

 colours, some are a brownish black variegated with white, and others 

 are almost entirely of a light reddish brown or rufous tint without the 

 white markings : indeed such are the varieties that it is scarcely possible 

 to say what are the most prevailing colours. 



Genus PnAscocHiERUS. F. Cuvier. 



Incisors^, canines \^, molars ^i, — 30. The two interme- 

 diate loiuer incisors smaller than the rest, and apart from each 

 other ; canines very large and directed upwards ; molars com- 

 posed of cylinders of enamel inclosing the osseous substance; head 

 very large; muzzle very broad; a large feshy lobe under each 

 eye and a warty excrescence on each side of the muzzle bettveen 

 the eye and the tusks ; eyes small; figure nearly that of the Hog. 



PhascochcBrus typicus. (African Boar.) The top of the 

 head, the upper part of the neck and the anterior part of the 

 back, covered with very long and rigid bristles of a black- 

 brown colour, those on the top of the head di\ erging like the 

 rays of a circle. On the other parts the hair is shorter of a 

 dull brown, slightly inclined to white on the flanks and belly. 

 Tail furnished at the top with a number of blackish brown 

 bristles, elsewhere nearly naked. Length from nose to root of 

 tail about five feet; length of tail about eleven inches. 



Inhabits Africa, — interior of the Cape Colony, — rather rare. 



Apcr jEthiopicus, Pallas, Misc. p. 16. tab. 2. and Spic. 

 Zool. n. p. 3. tab.l. Sus ^thiopicus, Gm. Sanglier du Cap 

 Vert or Sanglier d' Afrique, Buifon. Phascochxrus Afiicanus. 

 Desiu. Vlacke Vark o/ ike Colonists. 



