1865.] OF ENTOMOPHAGOUS EDENTATA. 363 
Rafinesque has described a species under the name of M. c@onyz, 
because he believed it had a bifid claw; but he seems to have mis- 
taken the bone that bears the claw, which in all the species is bifid, 
for the claw. 
1. Manis. 
The upper surface of the fore feet hairy, without any scales. 
Scales of the body slender, oblong, with nearly parallel striz. Tail 
much longer than the body, narrow. The central series of caudal 
scales continued to the end. Claws compressed; the first or outer 
claw of each foot very small, retracted behind. Africa. 
Manis, § 1, Sundevall, 7. ¢. 251. 
The nose bald; the side of the face, chin, underside of the body, 
the upper surface of the hands and wrist without scales, and covered 
with short hair ; the conch of the ear not developed. 
* Scales of the body dark brown, in eleven series. Manis. 
1. Manis tonercaupa. Pangolin. B.M. 
Dark brown; hair of face and underside of body black. Scales 
of the body in eleven series; end rounded, with a central promi- 
nence. Tail very long. Body and head 11, tail 24 inches. 
Manis tetradactyla, Linn. 8. N. i. 53 ; Fischer, Syn. 394 ; Gray, 
Cat. Mamm. B.M. 188; Turner, P. Z.S. 1851, p. 220. 
M. macroura, Erxl. Syst. 101. 
Var.? M. africani, Desm. Mamm. 376. 
M. longicauda, Geoff., Sundevall, 7. c. 251. 
Pholidotus longicaudatus, Briss. R. A. 31. 
M. longicauda B, Sundevall. 
M. longicaudata, Rapp, Edent. 15 ; Shaw, Zool. 180; t. 55. 
Pangolin d Afrique, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 98. 
Hab. Africa: Guinea, Gaboon. 
** Scales of body horn-coloured, in twenty-one series. Phatagin. 
2. Manis Tricuspis. Phatagin. B.M. 
Pale brown; hair of face and underside of body grey ; scales of 
the body in twenty-one series, truncated, with a central prominence, 
often appearing three-pointed. Body 12, tail 18 inches. 
Phatagin, Buffon. 
Manis tricuspis, Rafinesque, Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. de Bruxelles, 
vii. 214; Sundevall, 7. c. 1841, p. 252; Rapp, Edent. 15. 
M. multiscutata, Gray, P. Z.S. 1843; Cat. Mamm. B. M. 188; 
Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843; Zool. Typ. 15; Turner, P. Z.S. 1851, p. 220. 
M. 4-dactylus, Thompson, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 28. 
M. tridentata, Focillon, Rev. de Zool. 1850, t. 1; Rapp, Edent. 
Po;t. 2a. (5B.M.) 
Hab. West Africa; Fernando Po (Fraser) ; Guinea; Sierra Leone 
(Thompson), Skeleton and skull (B.M.). 
