436 Dr. J. E. Gray on Pigs and their Skulls. 



Dasychcerus celebensis. 



Head about once and a half as long as high at the occiput. 

 Animal black below. 



4. Sus. 



Head conical, about once and a half as long as high at the 

 condyles, without any or only a very small wart on the side 

 of the head. Ears ovate. The upper canines of the males 

 recurved, with a more or less keeled ridge across the sheath at 

 their base ; lower canines of the males triangular, flat on the 

 outer side, and keeled in front. 



Sus scrofa. 

 Hah. Europe. And other species. 



Sus mystaceus, n. sp. 



Brown, with scattered black bristles on the muzzle, forehead, 

 sides of cheek, and sides of body ; crest and hinder part of 

 body browner ; streak on each side of nose and over angle of 

 mouth elongate ; whiskers (on the black cheeks), gullet, throat, 

 chest, front of shoulders, thighs, and underside of body whitish. 



Skull : concavity on the sides broad and deep, only separated 

 from the orbits by a very narrow ridge ; the sheath of the 

 upper canines Avith a keeled ridge, and convex on the outside 

 of it. 



From the Zoological Gardens. Said to have come from 

 Java ; but I think that very doubtful. It is not like any 

 of the animals described by the Dutch zoologists. 



Domestic Swine. Ears more or less dependent, often very large. 



Scrofa. 

 Scrofa domestica. 



Centueiosus. 

 Centuriosus pliciceps. 



Tribe III. Babirussina. 

 Ears rounded, not pencilled at the end. Cutting-teeth 3^ j 

 the front grinders separated from the upper canines by a long 

 diastema. Upper and lower canines of the male much elongated 

 and recurved ; the sheath of the upper canines elongate, arising 

 from the outer side of the margin of the upper jaw, and closely 



