584 Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major on 



Jentink, moreover, suggests that Gray's S. verrucosus^ var, 

 cer'amica, described above, may prove to be the same as 

 Rosenberg's 8. ceramensis and Finsch's 8. niger. This may 

 be; however, so long as the only information we have to rely 

 on is to the effect that these various pigs are of a "uniform 

 black " colour, it is useless to waste time in conjectures. 

 From what Rolleston says * respecting a skull of a pig from 

 Ternate, which is identical in age and conformation with one 

 in the British Museum {^'8us timorensis,^^ 1501 b) f, one 

 thing is certain, viz., that in the island of Ternate exists a 

 wild pig of the vittatus type which has nothing to do with 

 verrucosus. 



4. Sus verrucosus horneensis, subsp. n. 



The skull of an old male in the British Museum (59.8.16.5 

 — 1362 a) I from Borneo, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace, 

 is, to my knowledge, the only known specimen of a verru- 

 cosus from Borneo. It is the very opposite of ceraniicusj 

 being a massive cranium, short and broad, in this character 

 approaching celehensis and amhoinensis, by both of which, 

 however, it is surpassed in height and in the greater elonga- 

 tion of the incisor region (see dimensions below). The crests 

 above the upper canines are of moderate size, as in 8. verru- 

 cosus from Java. 



5. Sus barhatus balabacensis^ subsp. n. 



In 1888 Huet described and figured a new species of Sus 

 (S. a/icenobarbus) from Palawan Island, between Borneo and 

 iMindoro (Pliilippines), pointing out the supposed differences 

 of the skull from S. barbatus of Borneo §. In the following 

 year, Nehring, without being aware of Huet's paper, gave 

 measurements and a provisional description of the skull and 



* L. c. p. 276. Rolleston, after describiupr tlie skull, adds : — '' The 

 colouring, however, of the he.id of this Sus differs from tliat of any other 

 Sus seen by Dr. A. B. Meyer, — or figured by Schlegel — the head being 

 covered all over with long black hair, except in the region occupied by a 

 broad yellowish-brown streak beginning between the eyes and descending 

 to the snout, where it broadens.' 



t Gray, Catalogue Carniv. Sec. 18G0, p. 335: " S. timorensis, 15016, 

 ... a wild pig, Ternate, from Mr. Wallace s collection." 



J ' Catalogue of Bones,' 1862, p. 277, under the head of Su.s vittatus (a) ; 

 Catal. Carniv. &c. 1869, p. 330, under Sus verrucosus; Hand-list &c., 

 1873, p. 59, under Dasychccrus verrucosus, where, by a misprint, it bears 

 the number 136 a. 



§ ' Le Naturaliste,' Jan. 1888, p. 5. 



