SUID.E 331 



Major, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xix, p. 534, to a 

 species akin to S. vittatus. Purchased, 1861. 



66. 12. 30. 4 (1501, d). Skin and skeleton. Dampier 

 Straits, north-west New Guinea; collected by K. Swinhoe, 

 Esq. Purchased (Zoological Society), 1866. 



90. 2. 20. 11-13. Three skulls. Wild Island, Admiralty 

 group ; collected in 1875 during the cruise of H.M.S. 

 " Challenger." Presented by the Government, 1890. 



13. 6. 18. 113-115. Three skulls and skins. Letakusa 

 Valley, New Guinea ; collected by C. B. Kloss, Esq. 



Presented ~by the Wollaston Expedition, 1913. 



13. 6. 18. 116-118. Three skulls. Same locality and 

 collector. Same history. 



V. SUS CELEBENSIS. 



Sus celebensis, Midler and Schlegel, Verh, Zoogd. Ind. Archip. 



pi. xxviii bis, fig. 1 , 1842 ; Gray, Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. 



p. 331, 1869; Nehring, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1888, p. 9, 



Abh. Zool. Mus. Dresden, 1889, p. 11, pis. i and ii, Zool. Anz. 



vol. xiv, p. 45, 1891 ; Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. xiii, 



p. 96, 1891, vol. xxvi, p. 182, 1905; Meyer, Abh. Zool. Mus. 



Dresden, vol. vi, p. 27, 1896 ; Stehlin, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. 



vol. xxvi, p. 70, pi. x, 1899; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. 



p. 662, 1904 ; Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. 



Pub. vol. viii) p. 32, 1907. 

 Dasychcerus celebensis, Gray, Hand-List Thick-skinned Mamm. 



"Brit, Mus. p. 59, 1873. 

 Sus verrucosus celebensis, Major, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. 



xix, p. 537, 1897 ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. p. 895, 1898. 



Typical locality Northern Celebes. 



Type in Leyden Museum. 



According to Jentink, the wild swine of Celebes is to a 

 considerable degree intermediate between S. vittatus and 

 S. verrucosus, having the facial markings and striped young 

 of the former and lower canines like those of the latter. 



Typically a distinct tuft of light-coloured bristles on 

 hind portion of each cheek; in half -grown individuals a 

 broad yellowish or brownish band on the sides of the muzzle, 

 and thence towards under surface of neck, this band being 

 more or less visible in adults; a pair of small warts on 

 muzzle above angles of mouth ; a crest of long black bristles 

 between ears, continued along nape ; young striped ; skull 



