416 Lord Rotliscliild on a new Warthog. 



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

 moie satisfactory classification of the entire family. 



It is not inipos.sible tliat one of the species of Kathlania 

 may be identical with Oxysoma hpturum (Riid.), referred to 

 above as " O.vi/somatinm." This is a question which requires 

 careful furfher consideration, but since Railliet and Henry 

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

 of " OAysomatmm " 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. 



References, 



Barketo, a. L. de B. 1919. " Sobre as especies brasileiras da sub- 



familia Subulurinte 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." 



lud. .lourn. Med. lies. ii. 2, p. 6.55. 

 . 1915. "■Fa lea list ra falcata. An Investigation of Oxysoma fal- 



catum von Linstow, 1906." lb. iii. 1, p. 109. 

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



* Heterakidfe.'" 1X° Congres Internat, Zool., Monaco (1913), 



p. 674. 

 . 1916, a. " Sur les Oxyurides," Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol., Paris, 



Ixxix. p. 11.3. 

 . 1916, h. " Nouvelles remarques sur les Oxyurides." To7n. cit. 



p. 247. 



XLV. — Preliminary Description of a new Warthog. 

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



Phacochoerus 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, whertas in other species it is considerably above. 



Canine tusks comparatively short, but enormously thick 

 and strongly bent forward. 



Hab. S.W. of Bahr el Ghazal. 



Major Barker, who brought the specimen home, said the 

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

 feet, 



