642 CLASS xvn. 



Comp. F. CUVIEB Mem. du Mua. vin. 1822, pp. 447 455, PI. 32, 

 J. VAN DER HOEVEN Annot. de quibusd. Mammalium gcneribus, Nov. Act. 

 Acad. Cces. Leop. Carol, xix. i, 1839, PP- T 7 J *77> Tab - l8 > R - OWEN 

 On the development of the molar teeth of the Wart-hogs, Philos. Trans. 1850, 

 Part 2, pp. 481498, PI. 33, 34. 



/> j 



Su8 (recentiorum). Incisors ^ or ^ , lower procumbent, canines 



exsert, directed upwards ; molars - - or - - , tuberculate. Feet 

 all tetradactylous. Tail shock 



Sp. Sus larvatw F. Cuv., Mem. du Mus. 1. 1. PI. 22, SCHBEB. Sdugth. Tab. 

 327 A; Southern and South-eastern Africa, Madagascar; boschvarken at 

 the Cape of Good Hope; Sus scropha L., SCHREB. Sdugth. Tab. 320, 

 Cuv. R. Ani., 3d. ill., Mammif. PL 79, fig. i ; the wild hog lives in the 

 forests of Asia and Europe (not in Great Britain, Sweden, or Denmark) ; 

 from this species descends our tame hog 1 , an exceedingly voracious and 

 prolific animal, bringing from ten to fourteen young ones at a litter. Near 

 TJpsal a single-hoofed variety occurs, which is said to be also met with in 

 Hungary. Comp. on this animal LINDH in LINN. Amcen. Academ. v. pp. 

 461 483. In the Moluccan Archipelago different species of this genus 

 occur : Sus verrucosus BOIE at Java, Sus vittatus BOIE at Java and Sumatra, 

 Sus barbatus MUELLER at Borneo. Comp. Verh. over de Overzeesche Bezit- 

 tingen, Zool., Mamm. Sus barbatus and verrucosus have a skull of great 

 length and narrow forwards 3 . Some distinguish as a separate sub-genus 

 Babirussa F. Cuv. (Porcus WAGL.), with four incisors in the upper jaw and 



molars. To it belongs a species, Sus Babyrussa L., BUFF. Suppl. in. 

 5~5 



Tab. 12, SCHBEB. Sdugth. Tab. 328, GEOFFB. Sx.-HiL. et F. Cuv. Mammif., 

 Livr. 64, Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., Mammif. PI. 79, fig. 2; het hertzwijn, the 

 stag-hog; on some easterly islands of the Indian Archipelago, Boeroe, 

 Celebes, not in Borneo. In the male the canines of the upper jaw are 

 very large and curved backwards. Comp. on the anatomy of this species 

 W. VBOLIK Nieuwe Verh. der Eerste Kl. van het Koninkl. Nederl. Instituut, x. 

 1844, bl. 207 248, with plates. (The large parotid gland which extends 

 over the neck is remarkable.) 



in the three skeletons which I have examined I have not found this statement con- 

 firmed ; these bones have coalesced at their superior extremity alone. 



1 "In nullo genere ceque facilis mixtura cum fero" PLINIUS Hist. not. Lib. vni. 

 c. 53. So also EICHWALD relates that the wild hogs in Lithuania often get into the 

 sties to copulate with the tame ones ; the young pigs, which are the produce, are wild 

 and intractable. Naturhist. Skizze von Litthauen, Volhynien und Podolien, Wilna, 1830, 

 4to, s. 244. 



2 A small species from Nepaul, described by HODGSON under the name of Porcula 

 Salvania (Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1847, p. 115), has incisors which do not project outside 

 the jaw, but in other respects all the characters of the genus Sus. 





