Mr. 0. Thomas — ^^otes on Babirussa. 185 



cliestnut-browu or blackisli M'ith the usual stripes and grey 

 tomeutiuu; pubescence black, rather thick, with a bunch 

 of white hairs above the base of wings ; bristles black. 

 Scittellidn with white hairs on its anterior ijordor and black 

 and yellow bristles beyond, the latter predominating — the 

 black bristles always ou dorsum, uot on border. Abdomen 

 with the usual black spots ; pubescence chiefly yellow, some 

 black on the posterior segments ; underside with whitish 

 hair^, the border of the last segment does uot appear to be 

 produced, but is bordered by the very tliick coarse black 

 hairs forming a thick tuft on each side, coalescing in the 

 middle. Genitalia extremely short aud small, black and 

 shining, with black pubescence; the upper forceps stout, 

 the white hairs above are thick and cxteud to the apices of 

 forceps. Leys dull brick-red, the femora with black stripes 

 above, the legs with thick white pubescence and many 

 whire bristles on the tibire. IVinys clear, with reddish- 

 yellow veins. 



Female identical. Ovipositor with some whitish pubes- 

 cence, nearly as long as the last two segments together. 



[To be continued.] 



XXIV. — Some Notes on Babirussa. 

 My Oldfield TjiOiMAS. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



'J'liE British Museum owes to the generosily of Mr. AVilfrcd 

 Frost a fine series of male skulls, eleven in number, of Babi- 

 russas collected by him in the island of Tali Aboe, in the iSula 

 group, east of (^elebes — a locality wlitue they had been 

 reported to exist, but from which, so far as 1 am aware, no 

 specimens had been brought to any European Museum. In 

 working these out and comparing them with the Babirussas 

 of Burn and Celebes a certain number of interesting points 

 have turned up, which may l)e worth i)uldication. 



Firstly, as regards the spelling" of the names of the genus 

 and type-species, these are quite correctly put by Lydekker* 

 Babirussa Oabi/russoj none of the other variants of the two 

 names being technically admissible. This being the case, it 



« Cat. Ung. 13. M. iv. p. 345 (1915). 

 Ann. ct May. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. v. 13 



