626 Dr. C. I. Forsytli Major on 



genanntj iiberall liiiufig, von Cagaydn, der nordliclisten Pro- 

 vinz Luzons, bis Mindanao, das Fleisch allgemein geschatzt." 



Only during the last few years have we received some 

 more accurate information about these Wild Hogs. In 1^S8 

 Huet described and figured a new species from Luzon, Sus 

 Marchei'^. The figure of this skull is rather indifferent and 

 not trustworthy, as Nehring lias pointed out. 



A careful description, with figures, of a wild hog from 

 Luzon (Philippines) is given by Nehring f, under the name 

 Sus celehensis var, phih'ppensis, Nehring \. In a later paper §, 

 the same author has shown that <S. Marchei, Huet, is identical 

 with S. celehensis var. phi/ippensis, Nehi*. 



The skull of the male philijipensis, as compared with the 

 male celehensis, is characterized as follows by Nehring || : — 

 The skull from the Philippines is lower, more elongate, and 

 has a narrower snout than is generally the case in " S. cele- 

 hensis " from South Celebes. 'J'he osseous crest above the 

 alveolus of the upper canine is lower and not so thickened 

 behind as in celehensis, more resembling the Javan verrucosus 

 in this respect. 



So far, these characters apjily as well to the skull of an 

 adult male in the British Museum (91.11.28.3) from Ayala, 

 Mindanao, but it carries them farther still and has, besides, 

 characters of its own. In length (basal length 269 millim.) 

 the Mindanao skull slightly exceeds the two male skulls 

 described by Nehring (259 and 252 millim.), whilst all the 

 principal dimensions of height and breadth remain below 

 those of the two skulls from Luzon, absolutely under those of 

 the larger one, and relatively — when reduced, as in the follow- 

 ing figures, to percentages of the basal length — under those 

 of the smaller one : — 



M. L. 



Relat. breadth of skull at largest (between 



zvgom. arches) 48-3 52-5 . 51-2 



Relat. frontal breadth at largest (between post- 

 orbital processes of frontal) 32-7 347 . 33-7 



Relat. frontal breadth at narrowest 22 23-2 . 22-2 



Relat. breadth of occipital squamie (alaj) 2G-4 33-2 . 29-4 



Relat. breadth of mandibula between the con- 

 dyles 40-8 44 . 42-5 



Relat. height of octinut 40 4.5-6 . 40-5 



Relat. height of skull (resting on mandibula). . 63-2 734 . 68-G 



• • Le Naturaliste,' Jan. 1888, pp. 6-7. See also Nehring in Sitzungs- 

 ber. Ges. nat. Fr. 1804, p. 102 footnote, and p. 219. 



t " Ueber Sus celebensis und Verwandte '" (/. c. pp. 14-17, 24-2G, Taf. i. 

 figs. 3, 4, Taf. ii. fig. 4). 



J Heude has erroneously attributed this name to Huet (/. c. 1892, 

 p. 86, 1894, p. 217). 



§ SitzuDgsber. Ges. nat. Fr. 1804, p. 220. 



II "Ueber Sus celehensis und Verwandte." p. lo. 



