SUID.K 365 



especially the last molar ill each jaw, markedly narrower, 

 with less cement in the valleys. 



6. 2. 21. 1. Skull, female. Ja Valley, Cameruns; col- 

 lected by G. L. Bates, Esq. Type. Purchased, 1906. 



8. 6. 23. 13. Skull and skin, immature. Cameruns ; 

 same collector. Purchased, 1908. 



14. 4. 16. 1. Skin, mounted. Cameruns. 



Presented "by the Roiuland Ward Trustees, 1914. 



V. Genus PHACOCHCERUS. 



Phacochcerus, Cuvier, Eegne Animal, vol. i, p. 236, 1817 ; Owen, 

 Phil. Trans. 1850, p. 481 ; Gray, Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 359, 1869, Hand-List Thick-skinned Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 69, 

 1873; W. L. Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, p. 276, 

 1960 ; Stehlin, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. xxvii, p. 376, 1900. 



Phascochcerus, F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Paris, vol. viii, p. 451, 1817. 

 Eureodon, Fischer, Mem. Soc. Moscou, vol. v, p. 373, 1817. 

 Phocochorus, Voigt, Uebersicht Naturgesch. p. 422, 1819. 

 Phascochaeres, Cretzschmar, Atlas to Rilppells Reise nordl. Afrika, 



p. 61, 1826 ; Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. v, p. 219, 



1836. 



Phascochaerus, Griffith, Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 289, 1827. 

 Phacocherus, Smuts, Enum. Mamm. Cap. p. 60, 1832. 

 Phacellochoerus and, Phacellochaerus, Hemprich und Ehrenberg, 



Symbol. Phys., Mamm. vol. ii, pi. xx, 1832. 

 Dinochoerus, Gloger, Handbuch Naturgesch. vol. i, pp. xxxii and 



131, 1841. 

 Macrocephalus, Elliot (ex Frisch, 1775), Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. 



(Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. viii) p. 32, 1907. 



Dentition : i. J, c. -}-, p. , m. f = 34 ; outer incisors and 

 anterior premolars lost early, and in some cases all the teeth 

 except the canines and last molars wanting ; upper canines, 

 which are devoid of enamel except at the tips, very large, 

 massive, and longer than lower pair, the attrition of the 

 latter forming merely a facet on the lower surface of the 

 former and not touching their summits ; last molars in both 

 jaws, very large, hypsodont, and formed of a closely packed 

 series of small parallel and vertical subcylindrical denticules ; 

 canines of females relatively large ; face much flattened, with 

 a very wide muzzle, and two pairs of triangular warty 

 tubercles, the upper and larger pair situated immediately 



